Renata Fernandez: 2016

NATIONAL OPEN ART COMPETITION RESIDENCY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART OCT 2015

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NATIONAL OPEN ART COMPETITION (NOA) RESIDENCY AT ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART 2015

In October 2015 I had the honour to be one of the 6 artists in residency (AIR) for NOA, in the Gulbenkian Gallery of the Royal College of Art, London, the first of a series of touring exhibitions around the country.

My proposal was an in-situ work, intimate and ephemeral that invited the public to get in and explore. I also wanted to respond to my own research of landscape representation.

Using remnants from my large format charcoal drawings I created an immersive paper landscape. This installation used the apparent simplicity and whiteness of paper. It was also a complex structure: made of giant leaves cut-outs, folded and crumbled that create a volume that can be penetrated. Once inside this landscape, the visitor could explore and discover another one: a miniature landscape. The co-existence of two landscape representations at different scales aims to encourage different sensory approaches towards landscape.

OPEN STUDIOS, OCTOBER 2015

OPEN STUDIOS 2015. ACAVA STUDIOS, HYTE ROAD NW10

My studio at present is one of 15 studios located in an ACAVA building, in Hythe Road NW10. As part of our lease we are obliged to open our studio one weekend every year.
On its fifth year running, this has become a quite well organised and attended event, thanks to the volunteers behind www.artwestopenstudios.co.uk. More than 30 artists participated this year, from other buildings around the area.
More than 400 people visited us, filling our normally quite spaces.
Here are some images of my studio during that busy weekend!

SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BLUE

Something New, Something BlueThis Blue Series, are all oil on board (prepared with gesso, made by myself, using artisan procedures). They all make use of the oval shape and blue hues, appealing to a collective memory (of china trinkets depicting bucolic representations). But this landscape in blue takes on the tropics, seeking to awake the desire for a far away paradise, while at the same time showing a nature that is also slightly menacing. Is painted on a board prepared with homemade gesso, containing fine marble dust, among other very stable and noble materials.

At his point, I have painted 4 out of a total of 7 pieces.