Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Hai-Hsin Huang
Hai-Hsin Huang’s works explore images indicative of contemporary life. Particularly governmental and instructional images that reveal an ambiguous atmosphere between humor and horror: the first-aid illustration in restaurants, ordinary family photo images and regular annual drill practices. She is interested in the ridiculousness and fear in society, the absurdity and the loneliness. As part of a generation marked by hedonism, people seem to know more but feel less. Catastrophes become assumptions; we practice suffering and crisis with laughter. Huang tries to highlight the lives of this easy and comfortable generation, and in particular, their lightness of being.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, 1984. Huang received her BA from National Taipei University of Education in 2007. She went on to receive a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2009. Huang lives and works in Brooklyn.
Hai-Hsin Huang, Looking at the Future, 2012, Oil on canvas, 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Hai-Hsin Huang, Silent Night, 2012, Oil on canvas, 48 × 48 in. (121.92 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Taiwan
Past Resident2013: Creative Australia
Jackson Slattery
Jackson Slattery’s practice operates within the grey area between external and internal realities and examines the relationship between concept and subject matter. In collecting disparate and diverse images then meticulously reconstructing them, Slattery alludes to a narrative of events, one that is concerned as much with the fiction as with the realities that it is extracted from. Recently, Slattery’s practice has branched out from the tight frame of the watercolour with a radical shift in scale in the form of sculpture and installation.
Jackson Slattery (Born 1983) lives and works between Montreal and Melbourne. In 2004, Slattery received his BFA in Drawing from RMIT University. Slattery has shown extensively both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Drunk Versus Stoned, Neon Parc, 2013; Wrong Formalism, Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy, 2012; Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010 and in 2013 he will be Asialink Australia’s representative at Setouchi Triennale. Slattery has participated in several residency’s including Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2008-10 as well as the Sammlung Lenikus Programme, Vienna, 2012. Slattery is represented by Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy.
Jackson Slattery, Untitled (Props), 2011, Handmade stickers, perspex and bluestone. Courtesy of the artist.
Jackson Slattery, Untitled (Pears), 2013, Watercolor on paper (diptych), 20 x 12 in. and 18 x 11 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Jackson Slattery, Untitled (Wrong Formalism), 2012, Watercolor on paper (diptych), 161/2 × 113/8 in. (41.91 × 28.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jackson Slattery, Quarter Turn, 2011, Watercolor on paper, 411/16 × 611/16 in. (11.94 × 17.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Leda Ekimova
Leda Ekimova was born in Svishtov, Bulgaria. She graduated from the Mathematics Gimnasium, Pleven in 1999 and the National Art Academy, Sofia in 2004 with a BA in Fashion Design. She is a co-founder of Eskimo Contemporary Art Association and the founder of Pistolet Gallery and fashion design label Chaika. Ekimova lives and works in Sofia.
Leda Ekimova, Geometric Anuses, 2012, Pencil on paper, 16 × 10 in. (40.64 × 25.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, The Dog that Leaves, 2012, Pencil on paper, 13 × 18 in. (33.02 × 45.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, MATTER: Clovers Anuses Dogs Graves, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, The Gland, 2012, Styrofoam, nylon, gesso, hair, and blankets. Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, Piano Coverlet with Two Graves, Textile, cupboard, gesso, and grand piano. Courtesy of the artist.
