Ever Blanco Black and White Draws

Este artista originjário da Costa Rica mas residente nos estados Unidos estará em residência certa de 2 semanas no ARTErra.

"My latest body of work focuses on encouraging the viewer to have a closer engagement with the environment and creative education for a myriad of complex systems and its inhabitants. My work wants to be aesthetic and useful but at the same time a psychological suggestion to question ethical ways of coexistence. Using all natural materials and even found objects, I present labor intensive images thought a network of tiny brush stokes the resulting image between a semi-realistic black and white photograph and a large scale drawing."

 

+Info- http://www.everblanco.com/

Gonçalo Beja da Costa, a Portuguese Visual Artist searching for time in residency

This is a Portuguese visual artist that decided to come to spend a week in our residency to be abble to focus and allow his thoughts to drift and find new ways, and aproaches to his working process.

In a residency, you have a escape from your daily routines and the plurality pops up and allow us to create with a new freedom of thinking.

+INFO:
http://goncalobejadacosta.simplesite.com/

Gonçalo Beja da Costa  é um artista visual portugues que procurou o ARTErra para trabalhar durante cerca de uma semana.

Sobre esta residência artística, Gonçalo diz-nos o seguinte:

"Há um modo de pensar para o qual as formas artísticas são momentos privilegiados de reflexão numa

possibilidade de produção artística nas suas modalidades mais diversificadas, como campo de conhecimento
e investigação. O meu trabalho convoca um vasto conjunto de ferramentas, pela afirmação da pluralidade de
meios, conceitos e abordagens, onde há lugar para o pensamento livre.
Os trabalhos focam-se no orgânico, no desgaste das superfícies, no brilho do aço, do cobre, da madeira, no
brilho da terra e das plantas, sendo o Tempo a palavra e o factor chave. Um trabalho em tecido e papel onde a
mancha se forma e se destaca ao encontro da textura, sombra, luz, como se anunciasse placas metálicas onde
a ferrugem assenta e denuncia o tempo e o ar que transforma a superfície das coisas.
Trata-se de um trabalho sem premeditação, extremamente veloz, em que a mão se solta e avança rapidamente
sobre o suporte quase às cegas. Um trabalho em que as contingências do processo e as associações
inconscientes tomam a dianteira."

+INFO:
http://goncalobejadacosta.simplesite.com/

From Ireland, Dara K, a visual artist in residency

Dara is an artist from the east coast of Ireland and is currently working on a series of landscapes. His paintings are expressive and often feature areas of chaos and abstraction contrasted with  refined figurative details. Dara's work attempts to capture the fluid and organic nature of the landscapes, inviting the viewer to experience the movement and depth within the painting. During his stay at ARTErra Dara aims to explore and experiment with the elements within his paintings and to exhibit his new body of work at the end of his residency.

https://www.instagram.com/kenofzki/?hl=pt

Este artista irá pintar as suas paisagens durante o tempo de residência.

Considera o seu trabalho contrastante entre o detalhe e a abstração, mas sempre tentando captar a fluidez organica da natureza nas paisagens.

No final da estadia irá mostrar o seu trabalho.

Australian writer Helen Hagemann in residencie

Esta escritora australiana estaré no ARTErra cerca de 3 semanas, e está muito interessada em trocar ideias com outras pessoas, Contacte-nos !
Conheça o trabalho da Helen.

 + INFO helenhagemann.blogspot.com.au

Helen Hagemann is from Perth, Western Australia and will be spending 3 weeks at
ARTErra. She has two collections of poetry and is working on a third, a series of prose poetry
titled, Random. Helen utilises three social media platforms, including Instagram, Twitter and
Facebook as a way of showcasing her poetry. Words together with images, sometimes
separate, sometimes overlaid are then linked to her blog. This allows a combination of
photography, art, artifact or object to highlight the words on the page. Helen is looking
forward to the inspiration that comes by visiting new destinations such as Lobao da Beira,
Tondela and Lisbon, and to join in with other artists whose work may also be inspirational.

+ INFO helenhagemann.blogspot.com.au

Jenny Zander ( USA) sculptural and visual project

Esta artista americana estará em residência no ARTErra durante as próximas semanas.
Ela procura e espera encontrar pessoas dispostas a servir de modelo para os seus retratos.
Interessa-lhe a proximidade á natureza, á Terra.
Vem com os olhos de quem procura capturar a beleza envolvente.
Acompanhe o projecto desta artista.

*INFO: www.jennyzander.weebly.com

"My body of work explores the relationships women have with their surrounding environments and the natural world. I center my work around women because there is a strong connection between the violence inflicted on those who identify as female and Mother Earth. The extraction and exploitation of Earth’s wealth also parallels the displacement and commodification of black, brown and queer bodies. I have been working on creating a series of body paintings and sculptures that serve as silent tributes to the fragility and resilience of nature and humanity. When I paint, I paint on people because a person communicates so much through their body language. For my residency, I would love to create simple body art designs that compliment the surrounding landscape and see if anyone would be willing to model this work. I will also create a ceramic or found-object sculpture that speaks to my experience in Lobão da Beira and the environment around me. My artwork strives to capture life's beauty in the many faces, shades, and shapes it comes in, while highlighting environmental issues that impact frontline communities."

*INFO: www.jennyzander.weebly.com