Past Residents
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.
Residents from Bulgaria
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Mira Gáberová
Mira Gáberová creates complex projects, in which cooperation with other artists plays a pivotal role. These projects emerge either from social participation or from a constant holding of a mirror up to the artist. The main feature reflected in many of her recent works is doubt. The injection of doubt which questions the multi-faceted reality and multitude of possibilities which the artist can use to investigate it. Gáberová tries to rethink and return to the past and create new solutions, which were originally dismissed or unseen. She is intereted in a lonely human existence, a tragedy of a frozen moment or a very simple and slow action that can last for eternity. An intentional pathos, a distinctive feature of her previous works, is newly – through drama, tragedy and melancholy- transformed into an absolute impossibility and a constant fight for the meaning and reconcilement with a chaos. Though being still inspired by pathos and exaggeration, her attention has shifted more to formal limits of video and work with deconstruction and various forms of authorial cooperation, interpretation and appropriation of artistic material by other artists.
Mira Gáberová (born 1979, Lučenec) lives and works in Prague. In 2006, she graduated from the Departement of Painting and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. Her recent solo exhibitions include Sleepings, Hit Gallery, Bratislava; Behind the Tree, Kabinet Gallery,Brno; Scene, Jeleni Gallery, Prague; Sisyphus’ Love, Synagogue, Trnava. Her group exhibitions include FILM. Directed by Artists, Nitra Gallery, Nitra; Crazy Curators Biennale III, CK Castle, Poznaň; PragueBiennale, Microna Building, Prague, Czech Republic. Interventions in the Gotic Collection, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; Donumenta, Stadtische Galerie Leerer Beutel, Regensburg; and Essl Award, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg.
Mira Gáberová, Fridge Gallery, 2008-2011, Series of 8 exhibitions. Courtesy of the artist and Fridge Gallery.
Mira Gáberová, Performance Group, 2012, Performance project with 8 performances, video installation and practice book. Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Sad, 2005-2013, Carbon-paper drawings, 24 × 17 in. (60.96 × 43.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Scene, 2012, Video, loop, 1 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Sometimes I Want to be Everything and Sometimes I Want to be Nothing, 2010, Projection, 2 min 16 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
