Denise Keele-bedfordDenise Keele-BedfordDenise KeelebedfordDenise keelebedford
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A brief outline of one artist’s art practice
艺术家创作的简介
Cultural diversity, correlation, belief systems and rituals form a basis for my art practice.
文化差异，融合和信仰，这组成了我进行创作的基础。
These human characteristics, impact upon natural environments and my environmental concerns relate directly to Australia, whilst conveying a global concern.
这些人类的共性，以及它们我所生活的澳大利亚的环境以及我周围环境的的影响，已经成为一个全球关注的问题。
Since my early travels to Thailand and Europe my experiences stimulated an intrigue with the diversity of people, cultures and environments. Through visiting places of worship and sacred sites I was exposed to different ways in which people practice religions, beliefs and associated rituals. My interest in calligraphy has expanded to include an interest in writing as communication, particularly illuminated manuscripts and currently the mark making of Chinese characters.
These experiences combined with technical and historical art studies are reflected in my art practice.
早在我很久前去泰国和欧洲旅游的时候，这些不同的人们，文化和环境就已经引起了我的好奇心。我既到过那些天堂般的国度，也到过穷善恶水的地方，沿途我看到了许多人们在宗教，信仰，以及其他风俗仪式上的差异。我本来就有的爱好书法的习惯，现在丰富到喜欢写些有鲜明图案的手稿，而且，最近还迷上了写些用汉字组成的图案。
In 2002 I traveled to China where I experienced interaction with people and sites extremely new and varied to my culture.
Red Gate Gallery - Beijing offered me a residency in 2003, Australia-China Council awarded me a residency in Beijing in 2004. Because of the budding relationships and intense stimulation I find in the ancient culture and contemporary art making of China my current art is influenced by my Australian and Celtic history combining and interacting with eastern art practices.
2002，我到中国旅游，感受到了一种完全不同的文化。2003年，北京红门画廊给了一次作为北京驻地艺术家的机会。2004年，我获得了澳大利亚驻中国大使馆的嘉奖，原因是我从从中国古代和当代文化中寻找信息来创作我的作品，而且我的作品中也蕴含了澳大利亚文化，和哥特历史等。他们认为这种中西文化建立
I use a variety of media to enhance and harmonize with my conceptual expressions encompassing places of worship, sacred sites, spirituality, celebrations and related symbols.
我尝试用多种不同的材料，来完美并且和谐地来表达我的想法，包括令人神往的地方，令人恐惧的地方，对精神领域的探求，仪式等相关的因素。
Production includes working in multiples to form a series or a single artwork.
The listed artworks explore aspects of influences mentioned and show examples of the varied materials used in my art practice.
所有的这些促使我创作了我的作品，有时是一系列，有时是单件。这些作品都是受上述我提到的那些因素启发而创作，你同时也可以看到我在材料方面的挑选和应用。
Within my art practice production I am considering the relationship of the works, particularly in installations, to each other and the audience. Often I am guiding the audience to move in certain ways throughout the work OR interacting with the work. This has become a more focused issue in recent installations.
在我的作品中，我很强调它们彼此之间以及它们与观者之间的联系，特别是我的装置作品。通常，我会通过我的作品引导观众进入一个特定情绪，或者与观众直接互动。在近期的装置作品里，我尤为重视这一点。
I have always and still am interested in audience responses and the dialogue that they have with my artwork. While moving through processes of making my artwork I have a constant dialogue. This may fluctuate and expand from my original concept thus enhancing and allowing the work to grow.
我一直并且现在仍然对观众对我作品的反应都很感兴趣，我很想知道他们站在我作品面前时会谈些什么。在我创作这些作品过程中，我一直都在和人交流。这些交流使我受益匪浅，甚至有时候我因此会改变了创作时的初衷。总之，交流让我的作品更加成熟。
I believe art making, when presented to the world, is a unique form of communication. We artists take on a responsibility of communication to a broader audience, when we present our art work. Often we are looking at how the work is considered by our peers but, at the same time, we are endeavoring to educate the everyday person in alternative ways of seeing and interacting.
我始终相信，当一件作品最终呈献给观者时，它表现的是我对这个世界一种独一无二的表达，并且，我希望可以得到回应。作为艺术家，我们的作品就是我们用作品来和更多的人交流的工具。通常，我们会关注我们的同行，其他艺术家的对自己作品的看法，但是同时，我们也努力希望更多的观者通过欣赏我们的作品，与它们互动也能有所收获。
Currently I am coordinating an exhibition to celebrate the 2011 International Women’s Day 100th anniversary that includes six Chinese and six Melbourne artists in collaboration. The project exhibition will be shown in Melbourne then travel to China to continue celebrations of the Year of Australia in China.
Information about my projects and art practice is on my website:
目前，我正在帮忙一个2010年国际妇女节100年纪念的展览。这个展览将分别邀请6位中国艺术家和6位墨尔本艺术家。展览将首先在墨尔本展出，然后在中国继续展出，这一年正好是中国的澳大利亚年。更多关于这个展览的信息可以参考我的网站：www.denisekeele-bedford.com
Written as the snow melts in Beijing 2009/11/14
Denise keele-bedford
写于2009年11月14日雪正在悄悄融化的季节
德尼丝•基尔•贝德福德
Denise is represented by Imagine Gallery - Beijing http://www.imagine-gallery.com/
HUANGHUA STUDIO - BEIJING CHINA
黄花工作室 Yellow flower Studio
Huang Hua Studio OR Yellow Flower Studio is now located at the famous artist village of Songzhuang.
2010 will see the 6th Songzhuang Art Festival Open in September. Songzhuang artists and invited artists will participate in art activities, exhibitions and events to celebrate the exceptional creativity in the area.
Huang Hua Studio is a large space offering close proximity to the Sunshine Art Museum, Songzhuang Art Museum and MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art).
Set in Country atmosphere, the studio has floor heating in winter, second floor views and a comfortable living environment. Xiaopu and Songzhuang villages have a variety of restaurants, art supply stores, art community and many small galleries. Over 300 artists reside in the area in purpose built Artist Studio Compounds and traditional Chinese Courtyard houses.
A one hour bus ride to Guo Mao Station at Jianguomen Road and East third Ring Road places you at the CCTV Building close to Today Art Museum, Wall Art Museum and a bus ride to 798 Art District.
Huang Hua Studio offers a fully self-contained studio with mezzanine sleeping area, ADSL internet connection. This arts and cultural exchange studio is currently available for artists and arts workers wanting to produce research or display art works.
Located in the same complex as BSC the district brings international and Chinese artists together for stimulating exchange.
For more information and enquiries regarding a residency at Huang Hua Studio please contact me.
We are currently taking bookings from November 2010.
Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas
女 艺 术 系 列 五“ 青 绿”
An Australia- China Contemporary Arts Exchange Project.
The Artists 2000 Foundation Incorporated is proud to introduce a fresh, approach to Contemporary female artists engaging with each other.
As an ‘Imagine Australia’ event the ‘Nu Yishu’ project focuses on untangling misconceptions about the ‘other culture’ regarding Contemporary Art practise, broadening and opening opportunities for discussion on individual, cultural and social perspectives.
Nu Yishu (女 艺 术 Female Art) Series V: Viriditas is the latest in an ongoing series of separate but interconnected art exhibitions aimed at creating transglobal links; the impetus behind ‘nu yishu’ (Mandarin for female art) is the development of cultural exchange between Australian and Chinese artists.
Viriditas: “青 绿”
Viriditas denotes lushness and vitality. It has been translated in various ways, such as freshness, fertility, fecundity, fruitfulness, verdure, or growth.
The term comes from Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), an inspirational woman, who coined the term viriditas - the greening power of God. She described this power as the agent of the God, a divine attribute that was the animating life-force within all creation giving it life, moisture and vitality.
‘Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas’ brings together six Chinese and six Australian female artists. The intention, through pairing and collaboration, is for each artist to respond to their artist partner, their art practice, philosophy, theories, techniques and influences, thereby increasing knowledge and understanding of the two cultures and delivering this to a broader audience.
The twelve artists, whose art practices span installation, painting, photography, ceramics, assemblage and performance, from vastly different heritages and language base, are partnered to form six pairs. Each pair, whose art practice consists of different disciplines, for example a Chinese painter and Australian ceramic artist, are interacting, communicating and engaging with the other, creating new artwork utilizing the skills in which they are professional.
The Australian artists are rich in cultural diversity with heritages from Italy, Hungary, France, England and Indigenous Australia.
The major difference between the Chinese and Australian artists is age. Not the age of the individual, but the age of historical development, the age of their cultures and heritages, that significantly underpins their place in the world at this time. While Chinese cultural heritage can be traced back 5000 to 6000 years and white Australia less than 250 years, indigenous Australians, represented by Koori artist Megan Cadd, have lived and developed their culture for more than 40,000 years on this continent. This project gives emerging indigenous artist Megan Cadd the opportunity to represent and promote an accurate image of Indigenous Australians through her unique art making form.
Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas opens an exchange that increases knowledge and understanding with an outcome through art making processes and collaborative creation that stimulates further audience dialogue regarding differences and similarities between ‘East and West’.
Participating Artists:
China -
Cai Jin 蔡錦 Gao Yuan 高媛
Xu Xiaoyan 徐晓燕 Feng Ling 堸翎
Huang Yin 黄引 Xie Dong 谢 东
Australia -
Liliana Barbieri Megan Cadd
Dawn Csutoros Judy Trembath
Jane Annois Denise Keele-bedford
Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas 2011 exhibition schedule:
March 2nd - 26th Manningham Gallery
699 Doncaster Road - Doncaster Australia
April 23rd - May 11th Tianjin - China
May 29th Opening at Beijing
This Project is supported by:
"Imagine Australia" - The Year of Australian Culture in China 2010 - 2011
"想象澳大利亚" - 澳大利亚文化年 2010 - 2011
https://imagineaustralia.net/en/
Watch for updates.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am 76 years old and am a full time artist with a large teaching studio in Warrandyte.
I have about 40 adults on my books for art classes.
Originally I trained as an art and craft teacher with the Vic. Education Dept. and have a Diploma of Art (RMIT) and 27 years experience teaching art and craft. I resigned to take up full time painting and teaching.
I am a Fellow of the Victoria Artists Society and the Australian Guild of Realist Artists.
My life is very full – painting, teaching, having exhibitions, judging art shows, demonstrating to art societies, writing, conducting workshops etc.
Apart from a life of art I have many other interests – my district, church, family, two car clubs, a vintage and rare car collection, and I race radio controlled yachts, (life member of the MG car club)
Retirement – what a dirty word!
From the art point of view my time at Carey (boarder 1948/49) was a disaster as there was no art or craft in the senior school – even the equipped woodwork dept. was shut. Everyone – teachers, parents and probably me assumed I would return to the family dairy farm.
It was a great surprise during my first or second year out of teacher’s college to receive a letter from Carey asking me if I was prepared to join the staff and establish an art department. As I was very inexperienced and still bonded to the education Department I declined – my life could have been so different!
I have two of my works at Carey – the bronze plaque of William Carey outside the Chapel and a portrait of my life time friend, teacher and mentor Lew Evans in the LH Evens Library.
Public works are very exciting and different from easel painting and I worked for a time as a sculptor and have work in such places as Whitley College and N Balwyn Baptist Church. I have designed a window for the Warrandyte Uniting Church and my wife, also a professional artist with a studio in Beijing , and I designed the major mosaic peace wall outside the same church.
Over 1100 people contributed to this wall!
Probably my most exciting and rewarding project last year was a very large replica painting for the burnt out Kinglake Anglican Church. The original by Violet Teague now hangs in the gloom in St. Paul ’s Cathedral ( Melb.). This featured on the front page of the ‘Age’ just before Christmas.
During August 2011 I am planning a major exhibition at the Manningham Gallery with a very dear indigenous artist from Mildura. Sometimes we work on the same paintings.
On a less than modest note I have held many exhibitions both here, interstate and in England (5) and have won many awards (excess 500).
The best being the Aust. Guild of Realist Painters Medallion Award in 2005.
I am very thankful to be having such an interesting and rewarding life.
Contact Walter via the contact page regarding Art Classes at Stony Creek Studio in Warrandyte
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