Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Fall into Focus program / NOVEMBER 2023
Huren Marsh
UK
www.instagram.com/huren.marsh3
About
I originally studied furniture and product design and after
graduating I moved towards working with architects and
interior designers for several years before making a second
career change (an engineer in a previous career) to full-time
lecturing in interior architecture and design teaching in the
UK, Vietnam and China. I am now part of a studio of artist
and designers in North London and I am in the process of
exploring new creative experiences that sets no boundaries.
My work is primarily installations that are a synthesis
of my three-dimensional/spatial design background as
a practitioner, educator and maker. A strong sense of
inquisitiveness and recognising typologies in the everyday
has developed over the years into observational/visual
storytelling through a range of media that often combines
photography, moving image and lighting technology. In
the creative process I not only research and curate the
installations but also construct them as complete or partial
exhibition environments with aspects of interactivity that
engages with the audience. I am currently experimenting
with and developing light-based installations.
Making Memories
As a retired designer and lecturer, now practicing as a
multi-disciplinary artist, the residency was an opportunity
to reflect on a number of creative projects spanning over
thirty years with the aim of categorising and contextualising
them for documentation, exhibition and possible publication.
The projects varied from those completed, those totally
abandoned, those that had lost their relevance over time,
a few that merely required documentation as well as a
core collection of current and on-going projects. What
could have easily resulted in a month-long administrative
exercise of taking a helicopter view then zooming in on
the specific projects was transformed into an occasion for
some unplanned creative engagements that drew upon the
physical/environmental surroundings, weather, interaction
with fellow artists and the uncluttered mental space afforded
by the overall positivity of Arteles’s approach to a residency.
I have entitled my residency at Arteles “Making Memories”,
from a short poem I wrote as we drove to the snowy blanket
of Ritäjarvi National Park. Looking back at over thirty years
of creative projects had made me realise how important
memories are in transporting us back to, and through, the
best moments of our lives.