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 / JANUARY <strong>2020</strong><br />
Isabel Rumble<br />
Australia<br />
www.isabelrumble.com<br />
About<br />
I am a multidisciplinary artist and yoga teacher from<br />
Melbourne, Australia. I have been fortunate to delve into<br />
the various creative outlets of dance, music, visual art and<br />
yoga, each informing the other in my creative practice and<br />
sculpting the person that I am.<br />
An underlying theme in my work is the investigation of the<br />
breath as a balancing force, and mode of connecting to self<br />
and place. Employing various breath drawing techniques,<br />
repetition as a force in performance, and spontaneity in<br />
image making, I position the intuitive body over the analysing<br />
mind. I encourage bodily awareness whilst drawing parallels<br />
between the body and rhythms in nature.<br />
At the core of my life and work I recognise the urgent need<br />
to remedy humanity’s disconnection from the natural world.<br />
I hope to contribute to this discussion through my creative<br />
outlets.<br />
Temporary bodies<br />
Paper cannot hold breath forever, twigs scratch their<br />
temporary bodies.<br />
How many lines do I draw before I understand this language?<br />
<strong>Arteles</strong> was a time of growth, self enquiry, and community.<br />
I came away feeling the power of art and nature, and the<br />
urgent need to nurture both. Meditation became even more<br />
integral to my creative process and I will continue to delve<br />
deeper into this space. Whilst silent days were insightful, and<br />
solitary time was plentiful, the connections shared with each<br />
of the other residents has had a huge impact on my approach<br />
to art making. My views around art have evolved, I trust again<br />
in this form of expression.<br />
I approached the month with the intention of furthering my<br />
ongoing investigation into the breath and its ability to map<br />
a space and a time. I drew my breath on paper most days,<br />
a meditative process. In the forest I found a place to hang<br />
them, and the installation grew over time. The place became<br />
important, almost sacred as it held vulnerable records of<br />
intimate moments. Each time I walked the overgrown path,<br />
my relationship to this small patch of forest deepened.<br />
I recorded the installation with photographs at intervals as<br />
the elements and time made their way into the paper, and<br />
created a video of the final piece.