Current Resident: Feb 1, 2020–Jul 31, 2020
Wallace Arts Trust
Studio #202
Artist
Imogen Taylor
Imogen Taylor’s practice seeks to illuminate the modernist painting movement’s embedded relationship with LGBTQ+ histories. Her reclamations of modernist tropes emerge on parallelogram shaped canvases to create a sense of disorientation for the viewer through queer phenomenology. Taylor believes that parallel to the physical act of painting, queerness functions as a medium activated by her body.
Imogen Taylor has exhibited work Hocken Collections, Dunedin; Michael Lett, Auckland; and The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, among others.
Imogen Taylor, Another Word For Abyss, 2019, acrylic on hessian, 47 × 94 in. (119.38 × 238.76 cm).
Imogen Taylor, Shit Guitarist, 2018, acrylic on hessian, 29 × 25 in. (73.66 × 63.5 cm).
Imogen Taylor, Ripe, 2019, acrylic on hessian, 47 × 47 in. (119.38 × 119.38 cm).
Imogen Taylor, Self Help, 2019, acrylic on hessian.
Imogen Taylor, Hooded Violet, 2019, acrylic on hessian, 18 × 17 in. (45.72 × 43.18 cm).
Residents from New Zealand
Current Resident: Nov 1, 2019–Apr 30, 2020
The Artists’ Salaries, The Icelandic Centre for Research, The Icelandic Visual Artists Copyright Association
Studio #203
Artist
Habby Osk
Habby Osk’s interests lies in basic physics: balance, movement, gravity, time and force. These concepts play an important role across her art practice as she creates works which test the limits of balance and stability and explore gravity’s influence over time using sculpture, photography and installation as her primary medium. Osk places objects in precarious situations to probe how far they can go without tipping over, to capture the moment of stillness before the looming collapse and the transformation over time.
Habby Osk has exhibited work at Gerðarsafn – Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland; Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland; and Tina Kim Gallery, New York, among others.
Habby Osk, Lean, 2018, wood, cement, and rope, 118 × 1961/2 × 10 in. (299.72 × 499.11 × 25.4 cm).
Habby Osk, Anchor IIII, 2019, wood, cement, and rope, 65 × 12 × 10 in. (165.1 × 30.48 × 25.4 cm).
Habby Osk, Fracture, 2018, C-print from photography series, image 3 of 6, 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm).
Habby Osk, Suspend, 2018, wood, cement, and rope, 114 × 83 × 10 in. (289.56 × 210.82 × 25.4 cm).
Habby Osk, Stability, 2015, site-specific installation with wood and plastic, 636 × 120 × 36 in. (1615.44 × 304.8 × 91.44 cm).
Residents from Iceland
Bjargey Ólafsdóttir
Hildur Bjarnadóttir
Jon Bergmann Kiartansson Ransu
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2020–Jun 30, 2020
University of the Arts Helsinki
Studio #204
Artist
Anna Estarriola
Anna Estarriola is interested in the exchanges and interactions between visual and media arts with other disciplines, including performing arts and technology. The themes of her work revolve around perception of reality, individual and communal behavior, and communication. She uses cross-disciplinary narrative structures that explore and question the union of content, medium and context. Over the last years, she has created media installation works combining sculptures and moving image with dramaturgy, mechanics and electronics.
Anna Estarriola has exhibited work at Galerie Anhava, Helsinki; Pori Art Museum, Finland; and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, among others.
Anna Estarriola, Emerging Toughts, 2015, sound installation.
Anna Estarriola, The system, 2017, media installation.
Anna Estarriola, Resonance, 2019, sound installation.
Anna Estarriola, Guided, 2019, sound installation.
Anna Estarriola, Transition / Assisted Breathing, 2019, media installation.
