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MELANIE FITZMAURICE


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  • My most recent body of work was motivated by a residency in the coastal town of Abroath in Scotland in late 2008. This experience has informed my art practice, inspiring sculptures that are influenced by explorer’s equipment, depicting themes of distance, trajectories, orientation and disorientation and drawing connections between geographical and emotional journeys.

    More recently I have become interested in challenging myself in a country that is even further removed from my home in Australia. I am particularly motivated to confront a more extreme climate, which is my reason for being attracted to the snow-covered landscapes of Finland in winter.

    Snow will form the basis for my upcoming body of work. I anticipate the experience of living in a country where snow is commonplace. I am intrigued by the ephemeral quality of snow, its ability to coat and accumulate on objects, disguising and revealing them as it settles and melts. I intend to investigate the bodily experience of snow; looking through snow falling, moving through settled snow and living surrounded by snow.

    I propose a body of work that depicts the fragility of memory, where snow serves as a metaphor for the unpredictability of memories. I will be producing a collection of white sculptures that merge with, and emerge from, the white walls of a gallery space.
     

    Melanie Fitzmaurice Idée Fix - 2007 Photo by Brenton McGeachie

    Idée Fix - 2007
    Photo by Brenton McGeachie

    Melanie Fitzmaurice Idée Fix - 2007 Photo by Brenton McGeachie

    Idée Fix - 2007
    Photo by Brenton McGeachie

    Melanie Fitzmaurice - Swell - 2007 Photo by Brenton McGeachie
    Swell - 2007
    Photo by Brenton McGeachie

     

    Melanie Fitzmaurice - Swell - 2007 Photo by Brenton McGeachie
    Swell - 2007
    Photo by Brenton McGeachie

    Melanie Fitzmaurice - Explorer's Helmet - 2010
    Explorer's Helmet - 2010

    Melanie Fitzmaurice - Explorer's Helmet - 2010
    Explorer's Helmet - 2010

    Melanie Fitzmaurice- Explorer's Pack  - 2009 Photo by Damien Geary

    Explorer's Pack  - 2009
    Photo by Damien Geary

    Melanie Fitzmaurice- Explorer's Pillow  - 2009 Photo by Damien Geary

    Explorer's Pillow - 2009
    Photo by Damien Geary

    Melanie Fitzmaurice- Explorer's Hook  - 2009 Photo by Damien Geary

    Explorer's Hook - 2009
    Photo by Damien Geary

    Melanie Fitzmaurice- Explorer's Hook  - 2009 Photo by Damien Geary

    Explorer's Hook - 2009
    Photo by Damien Geary

    More recently I have become interested in challenging myself in a country that is even further removed from my home in Australia. I am particularly motivated to confront a more extreme climate, which is my reason for being attracted to the snow-covered landscapes of Finland in winter.

    Snow will form the basis for my upcoming body of work. I anticipate the experience of living in a country where snow is commonplace. I am intrigued by the ephemeral quality of snow, its ability to coat and accumulate on objects, disguising and revealing them as it settles and melts. I intend to investigate the bodily experience of snow; looking through snow falling, moving through settled snow and living surrounded by snow.

    I propose a body of work that depicts the fragility of memory, where snow serves as a metaphor for the unpredictability of memories. I will be producing a collection of white sculptures that merge with, and emerge from, the white walls of a gallery space.
     

       

    Melanie Fitzmaurice is represented by Catherine Asquith Gallery in Victoria, Australia.

    Visit also the website of Melanie Fitzmaurice.

    Copyright images Melanie Fitzmaurice.

     

    Arts Council Finland
    AllaprimA foundation the Netherlands
    AREFS taide ja kulttuuri ry
    The Freedman Foundation





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