Four Antarctic Arts Fellows Announced
12 August 2004
Four Antarctic Arts Fellows Announced
A poet, a painter, a jeweller and a furniture maker are the 2004/05 Antarctic Arts Fellows who will travel to Antarctica as a group early in December 2004 through Antarctica New Zealand's Arts, Education and Media programme.
The Artists to Antarctica programme is a joint initiative between Antarctica New Zealand and Creative New Zealand, and selects artists who are either prominent in their field or who are top emerging artists.
"This scheme gives New Zealand artists a rare opportunity to explore Antarctica, refresh their spirit and gain the inspiration while living at Scott Base for some unique, creative work," said Antarctica New Zealand CEO Lou Sanson.
Creative New Zealand also places great value on its partnership with Antarctica New Zealand.
"Antarctica's unique environment captures the imagination of artists," Creative New Zealand Chief Executive Elizabeth Kerr says. "Artists who have taken this journey have been deeply affected by the experience and have created wonderful, innovative work on their return from the ice."
This year Bernadette Hall and Kathryn Madill,
prominent award winning poet and artist, plan to produce an
illustrated book and a series of exhibitions based on their
Antarctic experiences. Hall's prose and Madill's delicate
imagery were linked together previously in Settler Dreaming,
a collaborative work short-listed for the Tasmania Pacific
Poetry Award.
Kirsten Haydon, the first jeweller/fine
metal artist to visit Antarctica through any artist's
programme, will create a collection of commemorative
jewellery and objects relating to landscape, flora and
fauna. Kirsten has a growing international reputation,
exhibiting in the Talente 2000 in Munich, and is currently
showing at the Dowse Art Gallery in Lower Hutt.
Contemporary furniture designer/maker, David Trubridge
will also visit Antarctica this season. He was meant to go
last year but broke his leg, so his visit has been
rescheduled. David's interest lies in the history of polar
exploration and he plans to develop a series of works based
around the theme 'Structures for Survival'.
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Background notes:
The Artists to Antarctica programme is a partnership between Antarctica New Zealand and Creative New Zealand, which began in 1997.
It aims to fulfill four separate yet related aims:
1. To increase public awareness of:
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Antarctica and its national and global importance
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The relationship between arts and science
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Antarctica New Zealand
- Creative New
Zealand
- Individual artists.
2. To develop the individual's potential and make an impression on an artist's work over time.
3. To develop a major Antarctic collection for New Zealand.
4. To provide otherwise unlikely networking and collaborative art and literature projects between diverse artists and artistic mediums and between scientists and artists in a variety of fields.
The programme aims to cater over time for a wide variety of artistic styles and audiences that reflect the diversity of Antarctica.
Previous Antarctic Fellows include:
- Poet Chris Orsman,
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Painters Nigel Brown, Margaret Elliot and Richard Thompson,
- Children's author Margaret Mahy,
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Sculptor Virginia King,
- Ceramicist Raewyn
Atkinson,
- Dance choreographer Bronwyn Judge,
- Printmaker Dee Copland,
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Photographer Anne Noble,
- Composer Chris
Cree-Brown,
- Fashion designer Fieke Newman,
- Intermedia artist Phil Dadson and
-
Author Laurence Fearnly.
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