Artists Residency and Arts Council England Award
The Imaging the Land International Research Institute (ŒILIRI¹)
was
established in 2003 by a group of artist-lecturers within the School of Art
at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at UNSW. One of ILIRI¹s aims is to
encourage dialogue across a wide spectrum of approaches to imaging the land
in art; a dialogue composed not only of words, but also of enduring
artworks.
Central to this vision is the creation of opportunities for artists to work
in the Australian desert. The desert is a significant site in the context
of
Indigenous and Western art making in Australia. Through the ILIRI Research
Resident Program and the ILIRI Artist Scholar Program, ILIRI seeks to
provide a unique opportunity for artists to experience the Australian desert
and rethink their representations of the land.
I have been awarded a research residency from the 10/31st October 2008.
North to South has been awarded by the Arts Council England a project that
includes the residency and an exhibition at the Black Swan Arts Centre in
Frome, Somerset Jan/Feb 2009. There wil be an 'In Conversation' with Laura
Cumming, Art Critic of the Observer, during the exhibition.
English Heritage and Art Editions North have published
The Berwick Gymnasium Fellowships - an archival record
I undertook a fellowship in 1998 with Coast touring from the Gymnasium Gallery,
Queens
Hall, Hexham, Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield and the Towner in Eastbourne.
Into the woods
Interview with Director Anna Wilkinson of Northern Print and artist Louise
Cattrell 'Printmaking Today'
Winter edition 2007/8
read full article in 'reviews' section
Northern Print Gallery, Newcastle
Living North Purchase Prize
'A Year in Print'
Chosen for Virtual, Arts & Business, Birmingham.
Sylvan - Northern Print Gallery
12 July /2nd September 2007
Preview 12 July 6-8 pm
Opening hours: Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm
Gallery 2 screenprints by Alec Finlay
Cabinet Print on glass by Theresa Easton
Trees form an iconic part of our cultural and national landscape.
Their structure frames and edges the boundaries of garden, field and mountain;
their silhouette bridging land and sky. Imbued with symbolic virtues and qualities
they form an integral place in our historical and mythological imagination.
Sylvan - of woods, is a collection of etchings and monoprints.
The etchings are a personal arboretum each signifying a particular place where I have lived and worked. Started in Switzerland on a residency in 2003 they number seven with the aim of twelve. They are drawn from direct observation over several days and form for me a distilled memory of CH, France, Wales and England.
Sylvan-the monoprints are a new departure. In contrast to the monochrome
and intimate scale of the etchings the opportunity of using a large press
at Wolverhampton University that used to print Admiralty maps has made me refocus my use of
scale and brought colour into the work.
From observing form afar in the etchings, the monoprints are the experience
of looking up and into tree and wood. The connection of intricate branching
coupled with early leaf and blossom creating a matrix with the sky.
