Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Wallace Arts Trust
Roger Mortimer
Roger Mortimer is interested in the nature of attachment in the psychological sense. When this fundamental relational need is disrupted, it generates conflict, adaptive behavior and intense suffering. His paintings explore these themes, through allegorical scrambling of time and geography, giving rise to dense layering of colliding or intertwined worlds and systems. In Mortimer’s fantastical landscapes and watery coasts, people and creatures enact dynamic vignettes of horror and suffering, as well as the possibility of transformation.
Roger Mortimer was born in Mangakino, and lives in Auckland New Zealand. In 1998 he graduated from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. He has exhibited regularly since then with annual solo shows. Group exhibitions include Idyll, New Zealand Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe; Top Ten; New Acquisitions for the University of Auckland Art Collection Gus Fisher Gallery; High Chair, St. Paul St. Auckland University of Technology Gallery; After Killeen, Artspace, Auckland; Flesh and Fruity, Artspace, Auckland; Manufacturing Meaning, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington. His work is included in both private and public collections in New Zealand, France, Belgium and Hong Kong. In 2014 he was winner of the James Wallace Art Award.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Isa Ho and Roger Mortimer
August 4, 2015
Roger Mortimer, Port Nicholson, 2015, Watercolor on canvas board, 17 × 13 in. (43.18 × 33.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Anita Molinero
Anita Molinero’s work is a cataclysm linked to moments of its creation. The objects, subjects and materials which she uses slip out of the boundaries of the identity principle of cause and effect. We are more likely in the presence of a demonstration of the theory of disasters. (Text by Xavier Douroux, 2014)
Anita Molinero (Born in 1953 in Floirac, France) lives and works in Paris. She teaches in various art schools in Marseille, Bordeaux, Paris, and Bogota.
Anita Molinero, Oreo1, 2014, Polypropylene and galvanized steel, 70 3/4 X 39 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: Greenwich Collection, Ltd.
Jan Mun
Jan Mun explores the generative principles of how complex systems such as botany and fungi, economies, and social networks function; and the effects of interactions between different entities, whether cultures, plants, or people. Mun is a media artist that creates social sculptures. She uses a combination of artistic and scientific processes that manifest in the form of social practice, interactive installations, and bio-art. Mun is an amateur mycologist, microbiologist, and beekeeper working in collaboration with communities to innovate ways to communicate with each other and the larger public.
Jan Mun is working on two long-term projects: Greenpoint Bioremediation Project an artist-led creative cleanup and community partnership to innovate bioremediation practices for residents in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (one of the most polluted urban areas in the country) and ProfileUS: Invasive Species, which examines the biopolitics of the migrations of non-native plants and people in the United States.
Events & Exhibitions
Art, Wastelands and Ecology: What lies ahead?
April 28, 2013
Jan Mun, The Fairy Rings: Mycoremediation @ ExxonMobil Petroleum Remediation Site (detail), 2013, Mushroom mycelium, burlap bags, straw and woodchips, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
