Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Wallace Arts Trust
F4
Born, educated and living in Auckland, New Zealand, Susan Jowsey and Marcus Williams have collaborated as artists for over 15 years.
F4 is a conceptual and structural response to the introduction of children into their partnership; a boy Jesse and his sister, Mercy. The intersubjectivity of collaboration, the mediated nature of socialization in contemporary culture and the implications of power relations in these contexts remain broad themes within this collaborative model. Familial relationships and the investigation of representations of family have become particular. Ideas are developed and have been cultivated overtime with specific attention paid to conceptual and visual potential inherent in the prolific creative gestures generated by both children in their everyday play. These can play out through multiple iterations, which may at one time be championed by, one or other of the adults, but always remain the intellectual property of the collective.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: F4 (New Zealand) and Szabolcs KissPál (Hungary)
October 19, 2010
F4, Entrance, 2009, Video still from animated video. Courtesy of the artist.
F4, The Minutes, 2010, 1571/2 × 39 in. (400.05 × 99.06 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
F4, Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, 2008, 191/2 × 131/2 in. (49.53 × 34.29 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
F4, The Unknown; Image #12, 2007, 59 × 351/2 in. (149.86 × 90.17 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
F4, The Correction, 2009, 118 × 59 in. (299.72 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Aihua Hsia
Aihua Hsia’s work challenges the notions of boundaries and containment within the human psyche. She explores the collective unconscious by revealing the presence of a shared human essence. Through the employment of the ancient Buddhist sculpture technique, “Datsukanshitu,” Hsia incorporates her Chinese roots, the natural world, and the traditional past into her work. Hsia’s work has been nationally and internationally exhibited at Gifu Municipal Culture Center, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan; and 2 x 13 Gallery, New York. Aihua Hsia was born in Taipei Taiwan in 1973, and received a BFA in Sculpture at National Taiwan University of Arts and an MFA in Sculpture at Okinawa Prefecture University of Arts.
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 36 × 118 × 2 in. (91.44 × 299.72 × 5.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aihua Hsia, Warabi Hime, 2004, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 114 × 59 × 271/2 in. (289.56 × 149.86 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark – Fairy, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 75 × 271/2 × 171/2 in. (190.5 × 69.85 × 44.45 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aihua Hsia, Meiden and Asura, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 981/2 × 391/2 × 271/2 in. (250.19 × 100.33 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aihua Hsia, From Forest, 2007, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 821/2 × 118 × 231/2 in. (209.55 × 299.72 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Taiwan
Past Resident2010: The Ian Potter Foundation
Rachel Scott
Rachel Scott’s work includes informal, site responsive, expressive gestures and actions undertaken by the artist within acknowledged formal, conceptual, controlled structures and frameworks. Working critically with painting, performance, installation and the camera, Scott engages the personal to examine broader social and art historical concerns.
Rachel Scott (Australia) graduated in 2005 from the Sydney College of the Arts with a Master of Visual Arts. She graduated in 2005 from the Sydney College of the Arts with a Master of Visual Art, and in 2001 studied at the Hochschüle der Künste, Berlin. Recent exhibitions include: Alterbeast, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Wax On, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Sydney and why do we do the things we do, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art. Upcoming exhibitions include: Face to Face: Portraiture in a Digital Age, presented by d/Lux Media Arts, Arts Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and NAFA Nanyang Academy, Singapore; and Lovesick, Stills Gallery, Sydney.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Simone Bergantini (Italy) and Rachel Scott (Australia)
August 10, 2010
Rachel Scott.
Rachel Scott, (Like) Watching Paint Dry.
Rachel Scott, Strip For Me/Words Don’t Come Easy.
Rachel Scott, Painting 3.
