Sacha Ratcliffe is a Canadian Sound Artist, Filmmaker and Graphic Designer who has been staying with us in the Shared Studio for the months of December 2016 & January 2017. During her stay, she has been working in various mediums, such as linoleum printmaking, drawings, photography as well as experimenting with instrument making.
Artwork collaboration between Sacha Ratcliffe & Marina Shaltout, January 2017
Sacha has also been collaborating with Marina Shaltout on various performance – based photography, but the duo met during their residency stay here :)
Sacha Ratcliffe & Marina Shaltout, January 2017
Sacha is also a member of the band Dark Marcy which she formed with the other visiting Artist & Musicians at the Centre. Dark Marcy performed a couple of concerts at the Centre and where very well received. Dark Marcy has a facebook page worth visiting.
Dark Marcy; Brynja Bjarnadóttir, Sacha Ratcliffe, Billie Zizi, Marina Shaltout,
Amy Caterina is an American artist who stayed with us for one month in January 2017. She was working on the Pinhole & Polaroid Photography and Sewing during in her residency in the Fish Factory – Creative Centre.
Photo by Amy Caterina, January 2017
Amy is interested in exploring issues such as topography, reclamation, personal interactions, and domestic happenings. Direct and indirect, the real and artificial, and the cause and the effect of human and environmental interaction. She uses a variety of media to address these polarities. Her installation and public artwork continue her working method of interconnectivity. Amy was interested in the small community of the Factory and worked on series of portraits of her fellow Residency Artist and the staff of the Centre.
She was also fascinated the powerful landscape and how the variation in weather influenced the light and atmosphere. Amy experimented with Pinhole & Polaroid photos in the attempt to capture and represent her experience.
Later on she got her hands on a sewing machine for the first time and it opened up a new field for her. She started to experiment with sewing on fabric and paper as an alternative approach to drawing the surrounding landscape.
Artwork by Amy Caterina, January 2017Artwork by Amy Caterina, January 2017
Shannon Faseler is a visual artist from the USA who stayed with us during in January 2017. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where she received a BFA in Studio art. She also holds a MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon graduating in Chicago, Shannon moved to California, where she exhibited, taught and ran a University Gallery. Recently she has moved back to Austin, Texas where she continues a rigorous studio practice in addition teaching, exhibiting and curating. In her down time, she enjoys all outdoor activities with her husband and yellow Labrador retriever ‘star’.
Shannon works in a variety of media, She strongly believes in an interdisciplinary approach to the visual arts. ”Aesthetics of Decay” is a series of paintings, drawings, video and installations that challenge their customary view of aesthetics in the natural world. Rather than perceiving and representing a factual reality, her work is an illusion fabricated to conjure the imagination.
Her works are based on climate change and its visual effects on the planet including flood, glaciers and drought affected landscapes. They evoke the fragility and instability of our seemingly tangible reality. Subjective associations are made based on formal parallels that encourage the viewer to make new personal associations. Her work deals with the documentation of events while focusing on aesthetics and representation. Also, her practice is research based. She uses her own photography, documentary photography, climate change graphs and statistics as well as credible academic articles and texts on the subject of climate change as a foundation for her work. Currently, She is visually deconstructing the glacial landscape and formally reconstructing the forms and shapes. These works illustrate the futility of rebuilding the glacial landscape, like attempting to complete a puzzle when the pieces have changed shape.
Billie Zizi is a Musician & Artist from Canada and she has been staying with us in the Private Studio for the month of January. Billie has been writing new music for her album and filling the Centre with warm tunes. Her sound is a heady mix of dirty, soulful, indie jazz pop, and these tracks give off serious bedroom vibes. You can get a taste of Billies music here. Billie is also a talented Artist and during her stay, she has been making some beautifully coloured drawings and paintings on paper.
Billie is also a member of the band Dark Marcy which she formed with the other visiting Artist & Musicians at the Centre. Dark Marcy performed a couple of concerts at the Centre and where very well received. Dark Marcy has a facebook page worth visiting.
Marina Shaltout is American Artist who has been staying with us for the months of December and January 2017. Marina’s work has a humorous undertone and is marked by playfulness. It is based on sculptural costumes, performances and photography. During her stay Marina has been working with various found materials and fabric, creating sculptural costumes as well as performance base photography with Sacha Ratcliffe, but the duo meet during their residency stay here and started to collaborate.
Artwork by Marina Shaltout & Sacha Ratcliffe, 2017Marina & Sacha in the Studio, January 2017
Marina is also a member of the band Dark Marcy which she formed with the other visiting Artist & Musicians at the Centre. Dark Marcy performed a couple of concerts at the Centre and where very well received. Dark Marcy has a facebook page worth visiting.
