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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Write & Create program / NOVEMBER 2022<br />
Eddie James<br />
Australia / New Zealand<br />
www.whoiseddiejames.com<br />
About<br />
I am a multidisciplinary artist based in niplaulna/Hobart,<br />
Tasmania, Australia. Influenced by a career on the road, my<br />
practice explores the human capacity to see and read body<br />
language. I engage with mind/body connection in its creation<br />
of action, reaction, emotion and physicality. I use body,<br />
movement, the tactile processes of analogue/alternative<br />
photography, printmaking, and drawing to create a visual<br />
tension that highlights displacement, comfort, isolation and<br />
freedom. Bringing in architecture, light and form, I aim to<br />
translate a deep listening of space into a visual experience.<br />
I’m interested in aspects of continuous change and exchange,<br />
as layers to be revealed, as well as effects of time and place<br />
on musings between human, object and environment.<br />
I would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the palawa/<br />
pakana people as the traditional and ongoing owners and<br />
custodians of the skies, land and water of lutruwita.. I pay my<br />
respects to their elders both past, present and emerging and<br />
acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.<br />
I planned to work on a few small projects and a bit of research<br />
while at the residency, but this quickly shifted with my bag<br />
lost in transit. Strangely this gave a weird sense of relief.<br />
Without my tools, there seemed to be less pressure. I was<br />
given time to reflect and be more playful with my practice.<br />
Every morning I would write a stream of consciousness for<br />
10 mins, though this would often extend and included jotting<br />
down strange dreams and little drawings or poems. I ended<br />
up having a small love affair with the rocks and started<br />
experimenting with drawing materials, capturing the rock<br />
outside my window. Once my bag arrived my rock obsession<br />
flowed into my photography. In the past, my practice has had<br />
a lot of focus on internal spaces so it felt very freeing to be<br />
pulled into the external landscape.<br />
A haiku written on the last day…<br />
Just an empty space<br />
No edges or boundaries<br />
Where things come and go<br />
Reset. Respond. Rock.<br />
The rock sits quietly, letting change come and go. Just like<br />
the rock my body meets the landscape, some parts catch the<br />
light of day, while other parts staying in the dark. The external<br />
landscape finds a way to become internally and I become<br />
part of it.<br />
This residency created new ideas and fresh perspectives to<br />
further my practice and a prospective new project. I feel very<br />
grateful for getting to experience such a magic place with<br />
such wonderful people.