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Invitation Open Studio Day
The current artists of the January residency program |
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Georgina Gratrix, South Africa Georgina Gratrix on the web |
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Pearl Heneghan, Ireland 'When does body shed stop being us?' Previously admired as part of the body, it is rejected as a fragment of self. A build up of excess body matter growing with time and movement and defining in form to create a new self separate to the body. Pearl Heneghan on the web |
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Kate Jessop, England Kate Jessop is a mixed media filmmaker combining sound, hand crafted and new media techniques. Her work has been Arts Council funded, award winning and internationally toured describing her as ‘an old soul, fresh with youthful innovation’. She is currently exploring themes around craft and the industrial revolution and has recently written a comedy. Kate Jessop on the web |
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Ruth Le Gear, Ireland A drop of water has the capacity to hold the memory of a tear. My artistic practice revolves around water. It engages with how a drop of water has the capacity to hold the memory of a substance that has passed through it almost as if it has been locked in an iceberg, from the sea to a teardrop. The investigation of this notion, water as a conductor of memory has led to an interest in homeopathy. Intrigued by the emotional content of a tear, my present work involves the systematic collecting of tears from the public , making a remedy from the collected tears; as each tear is a like a snowflake has its own unique fingerprint. |
Kangaroo, Oil on canvas, 2008, 12 x 16 '' |
Holly Pereira, Ireland Pereira’s work as a sound/visual artist includes taking found sounds from a particular place/area and cutting, remixing and editing those sounds. The result is a soundscape that aims to illustrate, sonically, her experience of the place. Her work also includes drawing and painting of people and places, both real and imagined, to illustrate the sounds she creates. Together they create a kind of audio-visual travel journal. She constantly mixes cultures and cultural exponents into her own practice to create work that eludes borders and definition. To Pereira, culture, and its products and narratives, are fluid, constantly-changing, and evolving things. In her art, she seeks to record the things that one encounters on a trip into the unknown. Holly Pereira on the web |
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Patrick Shoemaker, USA Makes paintings about nature and people. He exhibits work throughout the New York area, and New England. Patrick Shoemaker on the web |
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Victoria Taylor, Australia Project Abstract This project will examine social constructions of identity and the dissonance between the representation of this notion and subjective experience, through the lens of photography. I want to develop a visual language that interrogates the stream of metaphoric representations of the constructed society we live in by questioning people’s conception of identity. My practice centers on a questioning of received 'logic' and a sceptical perspective on the supposed authenticity of (shifting) concepts of self. My project is an attempt to visually elucidate a coherent commentary on the incoherent ambiguity I see in our societal 'truths'. In film, photographs, television and advertising we are offered normalised versions of reality that I find highly questionable. Guy Debord once stated "all that was once directly lived has become mere representation." (Debord 1977) I use photography and projection as tools (in itself an ambiguous tool of representation) to visually signify how constructed representations of self identity are literally projected onto the body. |
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Amy Joy Watson, Australia |
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Shirley Wiebe, Canada Shirley Wiebe’s work reveals a sense of the life she has found here in Berlin for the final Open Studio of her three-month residency with TAKT. She is currently experimenting with composite photographic images that will make up portraits of two Berliners she has met during her stay. And there is a further evolution of last month’s soft sculpture form – tenancy is required to maintain its shape. Related drawings and photographs explore this process. A soundscape with voice and guitar references Shirley’s experiences this past month, and the beginning of a new year. Shirley Wiebe on the web |