Jacque Gilbert “Turangawaewae 3: Travels Around Myself” 21.02 – 4.04.2009
February 21, 2009 2:47 pm |
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| Jacqueline Gilbert (New Zealand, 1960) shows in this exhibition part of her sequence of panoramic photographs in which she charts her movements around the world as a drama of self-expression.
The main focus of her work has centred on landscape, particularly panoramic self-portraits, using the title of Turangawaewae. This is a native Maori (NZ) word meaning standing place or place of belonging, often used to refer to the tree, the river, or the mountain to which one belongs. The three vertical panoramas are new work, shot while travelling in New Zealand last year. Photographically impressive, she shows again in these images the relationship between man and nature. The horizontal series exhibited here was made during an artist-in residency in Can Serat, in the town of El Bruc at the base of the Montserrat mountain range 45 minutes out of Barcelona in Catalonia. Technically impressive, the sweep of the panorama encompasses as many as 17 images ‘stitched’ together. This format allows the artist to appear more than once in each scene, t |
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| The large 3-panelled work of Montserrat was commissioned by the City of Amsterdam to hang for a year as a broad sweep of public art in front of Amsterdam’s central train station, standing 4 x 45 metres.
TRAVELS AROUND MYSELF TURANGAWAEWAE: ROOTS This exhibition was made possible with the support of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture |
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| Jacqueline Gilbert | ||
| Education: | ||
| 1995 – 1998 | Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam | |
| 1997 | Exchange programme San Francisco Art Institute | |
| 1978 – 1980 | University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand | |
| Photography Exhibitions (selected): | ||
| Aug-Sep 08 | Seizoensopening, group show, Amsterdam Centre for Fotografie (ACF) | |
| Feb 2008 | Travels around Myself, solo show, Anchorage Gallery, Port Chalmers, New Zealand | |
| May-Jun 07 | De Mama’s en de Papa’s, group show, (ACF) | |
| Jan-Dec 2006 | Commission, Panorama at Amsterdam Central Station, Amsterdam | |
| Aug-Oct 05 | Home and Horizon, solo show, National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| Mar-Dec 04 | Solo show , Linguarama Insitute, The Hague, NL | |
| June-Aug 2003 | Panorama Amsterdam, Photography Museum (FOAM), Amsterdam | |
| Jul-Aug 2002 | Collectie Zoetendaal, Gemeente Museum, The Hague | |
| May-June 2002 | Foam in het Vondelpark, Amsterdam | |
| Oct 2001 | Parkgirls and Bushmen. Solo show, ACF | |
| Feb 2001 | Drie Luiken, group show, ACF, Amsterdam | |
| Commissions & Stipends | ||
| 2008-09 | Commissioned proposal for Artwork for Detention Centre, Rotterdam Airport | |
| Oct 2006 – | Basis Stipendium, The Dutch Art Foundation for Art, Design and Architechture | |
| 2005 | Art in Public Space Commission, Panorama, Amsterdam Centraal Station | |
| 2004 | Project Stipendium, Urban Nature (Turangawaewae), The Amsterdam Art Foundation | |
| Work Bought: | ||
| Erasmus University Photography Collection William van Zoetendaal Collection FOAM (Photography Museum Amsterdam) Collection |
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| www.jacquegilbert.com email: jdg@xs4all.nl |
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