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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Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH <strong>2020</strong><br />
Lorraine Hamilton<br />
Scotland<br />
www.lorrainehamilton.co.uk<br />
About<br />
I have been working with sculpture, collaborative performance<br />
and installation since graduating from Glasgow School of Art<br />
in 2011. My work oscillates around the contradiction of the<br />
highly personal and the collective; that which is expressed<br />
privately, deeply, emotionally and that which is shared and<br />
impressed upon by others.<br />
Ephemeral and non-traditional materials are often the<br />
bridge through which I articulate these opposing desires. I<br />
have previously used tactile and absorptive materials such<br />
as powders, jelly, sugar, plaster and cloth which invite<br />
audiences and participants to touch and interact with<br />
them, but which also prompt ethical decisions around one’s<br />
actions, as a reflection of how we all shape one another and<br />
our environments. I aim to enable a deeply personal and<br />
embodied experience for those that interact personally with<br />
my work, whilst prompting reflection on collective and social<br />
activity. My work is deeply rooted in feminist practice and<br />
those which are considered domestic, drawing out subtle<br />
power balances and questions of agency.<br />
”...but does it melt?”<br />
During my time at <strong>Arteles</strong> I became friends with silence.<br />
Apprehensive about what this new experience might reveal,<br />
I was surprised to find joy in the quiet; a lightness in myself<br />
and a new way of being around others.<br />
My work is often rooted in impermanence; things are ever<br />
changing. No material stays the same, and there is beauty<br />
in that uncertainty. The daily shift in the landscape was<br />
matched by our ever-changing circumstances.<br />
The biggest lesson was to not trust in what tomorrow brings,<br />
but focus on what today has to offer. Take that walk, laugh<br />
loudly with people, go to the public sauna, share in the<br />
salon, do what you want in this moment because next week<br />
may not bring the same opportunities. The daily meditation<br />
practice also served this change in perspective; a focus on<br />
experiencing the moment was an important lesson.<br />
What I created in my residency reflects this learning as well as<br />
contradicting it. I started the month creating works in ice and<br />
soap, materials I contrived to be worn away by the elements<br />
and the viewers touch. I ended it creating paintings that are<br />
like time capsules, setting transient moments in a clear resin,<br />
like leaves suspended in amber. I wanted to freeze these<br />
moments of impermanence and capture them forever.<br />
This residency has given me so much; my time was sadly<br />
cut short due to the global pandemic but the 18 days I had<br />
revealed unexpected things about myself and my work.