Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / JULY 2022<br />
Zoe Grey<br />
Tasmania, Australia<br />
www.zoe-grey.com<br />
About<br />
I am an emerging artist who grew up in Marrawah, a remote<br />
coastal town on the western edge of Tasmania, a small island<br />
off the south of Australia. Marrawah is exposed, with unique<br />
wild weather and a raw, rugged landscape. I grew up there<br />
and developed a love for the natural environment around me.<br />
My intimate lived experience of that landscape informs my<br />
work. I seek to investigate how the practice of painting can<br />
hold, nurture and unpack our relationships to place.<br />
My process explores raw authentic mark making and<br />
responds to the tactile, intimate quality of paint. I work with<br />
memory and familiarity to guid figurative representations,<br />
and I engage distance as a tool of abstraction. I strive to<br />
investigate the complex character of landscape and question<br />
the way we view and re-present the land around us.<br />
I graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2018 and<br />
have since exhibited nationally, with work held in private<br />
collections internationally. I am currently based in nipaluna/<br />
Hobart, Australia, pursuing my practice at the Artist Run<br />
Initiative Good Grief Studios.<br />
Stillness + play<br />
I came to <strong>Arteles</strong> with an intention to be open, a determination<br />
to ‘see what happens’. Pretty quickly, I felt a great sense of<br />
space and freedom. I felt deeply creative, with no bounds<br />
to what I could make. I experimented more than I ever have<br />
in my practice, each day making drawings, collages and<br />
paintings different to what I had made before. I played with<br />
new mediums; I made a video work, shot several rolls of film,<br />
wrote extensively everyday and collaborated with the group.<br />
I made work that was un-precious, unfinished, raw and<br />
completely playful. I rediscovered the joy and importance<br />
of valuing process. I moved through my days with a newfound<br />
sense of stillness, focus and thoughtfulness. In my<br />
paintings, I experimented a lot with the idea of space, pairing<br />
things back and leaving the raw beginnings of a picture. This<br />
exploration kick started a major formal shift in my work that<br />
I continue to push today. My time at <strong>Arteles</strong> was profoundly<br />
moving. I learnt endlessly about my self, my practice, ways of<br />
existing and ways of creating. I carry these discoveries with<br />
me, and think about my time at that place so often.