Residency open day where the local community was invited to engage through an open studio and artist talk.
During my residency at BigCi, I created a new body of work “Who Owns the Stones”, looking the relationship between exploration and the urge to dominate wild places by mapping, claiming and naming.
This was expressed through a series of paintings, and installation where graphic marks are imposed on top of the landscape, exploring how cartography and drawing imaginary lines on to space allow us to understand space, possess, tame, and inhabit. The glass walls of the residency space provided the perfect surface to explore drawing cartographic lines on top of the landscape.
This was expressed through a series of paintings, and installation where graphic marks are imposed on top of the landscape, exploring how cartography and drawing imaginary lines on to space allow us to understand space, possess, tame, and inhabit. The glass walls of the residency space provided the perfect surface to explore drawing cartographic lines on top of the landscape.
Who Owns the Stones, Gouache on Arches, 29.7 x 21 cm.
Naming the Stones, Gouache on Arches, 21 x 29.7 cm. Looking at human desire to name and claim material objects.
Engaging with the local community during the open studio day.