Covet 2 - Gallery Overstroom

 Golden Lung 2 Sharon Peoples, machine embroidery

For those that participated in Covet 2 in Amsterdam at Gallery Overstroom, this is now the correct link to the exhibition if you would like to use it for CV's etc.
Covet 2

junya ishigami sculpts poetic landscape 'water garden' at japanese oasis art biotop

image © nikissimo inc.

Titled ‘art biotop water garden’, junya ishigami’s earthwork landscape is nestled among the foothills of japan’s nasu mountains. the sprawling environment, which designboom exclusively previewed with ishigami at his studio, is generated with the aim of obscuring the boundary between architecture, landscape architecture, art, and environmentalism. while the garden is carefully modeled and reliant on technological artifacts, the work is both highly artificial and undeniably natural — a living organism that grows and changes by its own inherent dynamics. the temporal characteristics of the landscape are revealed with the existence of former, existing, and future layers.
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Trees exhibition Francis Hallé Foundation Cartier

Trees exhibition Foundation Cartier- Fabrice Hyber

This video is in French artwork by Fabrice Hyber in Trees Foundation Cartier 

Nancy Tingey - Work in Progress

As Above – So Below 2019, cable sheathing mirror glass, Photographer Susan Hey

As Above – So Below 2019, cable sheathing mirror glass, Photographer Susan Hey

As Above – So Below 2019, (detail) cable sheathing mirror glass, Photographer Susan Hey

The ‘trees' are made from cable sheathing. This is a 'work in progress' for the Wagga exhibition. It arose out of a work I made for the Strathnairn Studio Holders 2019 exhibition in which the trees were displayed on a sheet of mirror glass.

http://www.nancytingey.net 

Still Waters Opens 5 December - till January 31st 2020 Sharon Peoples

This exhibition is the result of Sharon’s residency at the Tuggeranong arts centre in January 2019. 

Sharon Peoples, Still Waters 2019

On my walks during the residency, I pondered the beautiful extensive landscapes at each turn in the path around the lake, admiring the designer’s skill at framing the water, hills and mountains. I revelled in the general quietness but was  puzzled by the lack of interaction with the water during the peak of summer. 

 The still waters of Lake Tuggeranong in the early Summer mornings are glorious. Becoming more familiar with the Lake during the residency, details caught my eye: the birds, the occasional dead fish, the water reflections, the plant life. I revelled in the general quietness with bird calls as a backdrop, until I realised the only interaction by humans with the Lake were two men who regularly motored a small boat to the top end of the Lake.

 I subsequently came upon an area of blue/green algae and quickly realised the connections behind the tranquillity and the inhibition of use. Blue/green algae has made it presence felt on the Lake. Its reverberation felt downstream no doubt. The organic growth of the city is perhaps not what was imagined.

 I later learned that the men were scientists were checking the water readings in an effort to understand the source and typology of the toxic algae. A small area in the water was fenced off by rope with orange floats. Once they finished their work for the day silence returned.

 In the exhibition the larger lace works, which are machine embroidered, reflect fragility of the environment. For the smaller hand embroidered pieces, I use darn stitching as a metaphor for repair: repairing the environment. In these works, I particularly use cotton thread to link climate change with industrial crops, such as cotton. Layered within the use of the glass cases is the assistance glasses give to our vision. As well the ability to open and shut the cases at will.

https://www.sharon-peoples.com

Tree Exhibition - Cartier Foundation

Stunning Tree exhibition at the Cartier Foundation Paris. All Photos taken by Valerie Kirk.

Trees
12 July 2019 - 5 January 2020
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2019. © 
Website 

Open Studio Paris -Valerie Kirk

www.citedesartsparis.net
www.mayumi-inoue.com
www.valeriekirktapestry.com

The Cite International des Arts, Paris - Valerie Kirk

The residency provided me with a unique opportunity to disconnect from my commitments in Australia and immerse myself in the arts context of Paris. As an artist and tapestry weaver I wanted to visit museums/galleries/collections and respond in the studio. These experiences allowed me to deeply engage with traditional and contemporary art and tapestry and my specific research/practice interests.

As a basis for research and development of new works I explored The French Natural History Museum, Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, housing the largest public display of invertebrate fossils. This gave me an opportunity to source visual material to use in new drawing, collage and tapestry. My intension was not to reproduce what I saw but to use the collection as a starting point to highlight the intangibility of the distant past and our relationship with it so that we can understand our place in time, location and space. This work builds on my previous “Floating Fossils” series of drawings, collage, stitch and tapestry, stemming from work at the Age of Fishes Museum, Canowindra, NSW. It allows me to accelerate my practice through focussed application to research and studio work.

Valerie Kirk is a Scottish born artist and tapestry weaver who now lives in Australia. She explores ideas about moving between two countries, identity and place in the world in relation to location and the perspective of time. Her imagery is developed from looking at textiles, landscape and fossils evoking the long distant past.

https://www.valeriekirktapestry.com/

Valerie Kirk, Paris 2019

Valerie Kirk, Paris 2019

Valerie Kirk, Paris 2019

Valerie Kirk, Paris 2019

Valerie Kirk, Paris 2019

Studio and works in progress from The Cite International des Arts, Paris, September-October 2019.
Valerie Kirk
https://www.valeriekirktapestry.com/

Lichen Inspiration - Bev Moxon

I have been taking photos of tree bark and lichens  for quite some time. The colours are amazing and have  inspired my work for the exhibition Tree Conversations: Networking with the Wood Wide Web.

Bev Moxon, Lichen 

Bev Moxon, Lichen 

Bev Moxon

Bev Moxon, Bark