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| Gabrielle Bates |
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| Gabrielle Bates, Talismanic Memory Map, 2017, mixed media assemblage |
Gabrielle's art works have been selected for competitive award exhibitions including the Portia Geach Prize for Female Portraiture, North Sydney Art Prize, Tim Olsen Drawing Prize and the Wollongong Bicentennial Sculpture Award. A survey of her paintings was held at Victoria University in 2010 and in 2018 held a solo exhibition at DuckRabbit in Redfern, Sydney. www.gabriellebates.com
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| Kassandra Bossell |
Kassandra Bossell is a multidisciplinary artist, working in sculpture and installation across gallery-based art, public art, commissions and community art. She exhibits in Australia and internationally and her artworks are held in private collections in Australia, China, New Zealand, Malaysia, Germany and US. She has completed commissions in a range of scales for diverse arts organizations. Kassana is a currently a Master of Fine Arts Research candidate at UNSW Art & Design. Her research areas include ecology, post-humanist philosophy, evolutionary biology and ecological art.
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| Kassandra Bossell, I am Phytoplankton, 2018, Thermoplastic, latex, Forton MG, leaves, human hair,
faux fur, feathers
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Kassandra has lectured in Sculpture at the National Art School and tutored at universities, colleges and festivals around Australia. Kassandra has also worked with many community-based organizations, facilitating workshops and mentoring other artists. She has completed several residencies and often works with the Indigenous Yolgnu nation in Arnhem Land, to facilitate workshops and offer artist to artist skills. Kassandra has been a recipient of a 2018 UNSW Art & Design Research Travel Grant, 2015 Art on the Greenway Grant and 2012 Regional Art Grant, 2010 NT Artist to Artist Grant 2010, and 2005 Pat Corrigan Grant. www.whysas.com
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| Kassandra Bossell, S'kin, 2018, latex |
Combining our interests in biological connectivity and magical ritual, we are going to use our residency at Gunyah to work collaboratively, exploring the scientific nuances, mythologies and esoteric qualities of threshold zones such as the Gunyah foreshore. These key sites of ecological flow, the intertidal and littoral zones, have always been places of natural and cultural learning. We plan to delve into the close relationships between the human and non-human, material and immaterial to navigate site-specific creative processes. Together we will document our graphic, sculptural, performative and ephemeral encounters within this liminal landscape, and our creative experimentation will be developed into a larger installation that incorporates narrative, sculpture and video elements.
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Gabrielle Bates, Spirit Maps, 2017, mixed media collage on paper
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