I am very excited to begin featuring some of the
talented artists involving themselves with this project:
The first Feature Artist I would like to introduce is
Rose is based in Far North Queensland (East Coast - Australia)
and is fully engaged with her community
through the Artist-Run-Initiative
Below are words and images Rose kindly forwarded to share with you.
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Memory cluster 2012
mixed media installation
Photography - Michael Marzik |
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Sense trigger I 2012
mixed media and perspex
Photography - Michael Marzik |
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Sense trigger I 2012 (detail)
mixed media and perspex
Photography - Michael Marzik |
all images copyright of the artist
Rose Rigley is a far north Queensland visual artist whose practice investigates both
two dimensional and three dimensional platforms. She explores the human
condition with a particular emphasis on memory, investigating patterns of
intergenerational behavior and finding a narrative in the ordinary and
mundane. In recent works, Rose considers
the inextricable links between past experiences and the current individual
perceptions; using books as the material in her process, deconstructing and
reassembling these objects, to create new forms for the conveyance and storage
of memories.
With her Artist-run-initiative, Knock Knock, Rose has established an ongoing program of
curated group exhibitions and community engagement events, as well as
participating in numerous group exhibitions, both regionally and nationally,
and holding four solo exhibitions. In 2013,
Rose was shortlisted for a number of artist opportunities including the 2013
Libris Awards, the 2013 EGAG Books Beyond Words Awards, the Lethbridge 1000 Art
Awards, the Queensland Regional Art Awards, along with participation in the 4th
Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, UK. In 2014, she will exhibit a
major body of works at Cairns Regional Gallery as part of their Emerging Artist
Program.
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| Rose's Mum in the "Book Room" |
I cannot remember a time when books did not feature in my life, so there is an almost inevitability to the use of them in my art practice. My father, now dead more than 20 years, was an avid reader and, as a library technician, a great book lover. My mother, an unrepentant hoarder, has kept his collection & added to it. For me, there is great comfort in going home to my mother's house and being in the "book room" - a room of three walls of floor to ceiling books - as it connects me back to my father and to the hours I spent reading quietly alongside him as a child.
(Rigley 2013).
