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Ros Meeker, Things to Do, 2011
Photopolymer Etching, gouache on Arches BFK paper
28 x 20.5cm
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I grew up in NSW, but for the past 28 years I have dwelt in a tall wet rainforest in Tasmania’s south, and as such I anticipate viewing the North Coast through a window of nostalgia and fond memory. I think I can remember the smell of the air and the quality of light.
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Ros Meeker, Sonja’s
Dream (The Sound of One Hand Clapping), 2012
Photopolymer Etching on Arches BFK Rives paper, 30 x 40cm
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"It wasn’t that my family did not embrace Australian culture. Far from it. Barbeques and days at the football or the beach were common fare. Yet these activities were supplemented with evenings of my father standing by the piano, singing songs of a Scottish home.."
I will use my time at Gunyah to reacquaint myself with the North Coast as ‘place’, and respond to
it through documentation of the actual landscape/ground and through memory of
childhood holidays. I plan to amass a photographic and found archive
of frottages (I'm always looking for a new texture to bring into my work and to me rubbings carry an authentic sense of real placedness), which will figure into collages and ultimately etching
plates. These works would look back nostalgically to
1960s/70s holidaymaking coastal culture, past ideals of Australian identity and
also contain that which I rediscover during residence.
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Ros Meeker, What
to Wear
Photopolymer
Etching, gouache on Arches BFK paper
28 x 20.5cm
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Currently a MFA candidate
at the University of Tasmania School of Art, Ros Meeker’s thesis in the making is
titled Familiar
Ground: Expressing Post-Diasporic Scottish Identity through Collage and Print. The project continues
an art practice that long term has engaged with contemplation of the physical
ground and the psychological landscape. In her art practice Meeker works on
paper producing prints ranging from the miniature to large scale, using both
modern and traditional forms of etching. Her work sometimes takes the form of
installation and she has an ongoing interest in the curation of small group
shows. Meeker has had a number of solo shows in Hobart and interstate, and
exhibits with the Osmosis group and Hunter Island Press. Her work is
represented at the Henry Jones Art Hotel and held in various collections such
as CSIRO, RACI and the Allport Library.
You can view more of Ros' artwork at www.onewall.com.au/2012/05/ros-meeker
