tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786192075427374122024-03-21T18:07:06.220-07:00Kulttuuri Kauppila ResidencyHi - This is a first attempt at blogging - it will be short and sweet with lots of pictures. I want to share what has begun as an extraordinary adventure - a journey to Finland in the middle of winter......Veronica Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583482096092539296noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878619207542737412.post-23146850790369031932010-04-25T10:07:00.000-07:002010-04-26T14:32:30.506-07:00Last post from KulttuuriKauppila<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Meidan Talo</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"> extended to 10.5.2010</span></span></div><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">The last two or three weeks have been very busy with putting the show up, showing groups around (including The Head of Finnish Arts Council, Esa Rantanen who was attending Suomen Residenssien Tapaaminen, Osallistujalista – Arts Residency Forum reported by YLE radio). Also had the local newspaper </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Rantapohja’ come and</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> interview me. Plus a long interview wiith the magazine </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Meidan Talo. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">he exhibition has now been extended to coincide with the May edition of </span>Meidan Talo <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">coming out.</span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> For me this feature in </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Meidan Talo</span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> completes the art piece </span></span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Meidan Talo</span></span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">, as it is where the work began. ‘Full circle’ as a friend Fiona observed. The exhibition opening was great with lots of fizz, flowers, cards and presents – I was very touched. It has all been fantastic and I am very pleased with how it’s gone. </span></span></span></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">The other big event was the 360 seminar Kuvataidepaivat Oulussa about Art and Architecture at Lasaretti Hotelli for Oulu Museum of Art where I gave a talk to a conference of two hundred people. The title of my presentation was ‘Sites of Well Being’ and it was the story of </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">CARAVAN</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"> (a previous artwork - see website) and the development of </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Meidan Talo</span></span></b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">The outline of the talk is on the ‘Talks & Courses’ page of this blog.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>Veronica Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583482096092539296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878619207542737412.post-379086876227130622010-04-07T05:37:00.000-07:002010-04-08T00:33:50.591-07:00The last few days in the studio before the show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1AofMbl-ugrO-pVSVSQ7gOGgnxcf0abzpN2uMTAbviF_l6OmbQGflTaYLCz3T53U8jOqATqgMg1vVWkSLxuJQKaaoMnXQNMtHjn7k4NGhRNGKtk-LM0h02KjbT4-8tZHrtI2BtFnRwM8/s1600/DSC_0022_5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1AofMbl-ugrO-pVSVSQ7gOGgnxcf0abzpN2uMTAbviF_l6OmbQGflTaYLCz3T53U8jOqATqgMg1vVWkSLxuJQKaaoMnXQNMtHjn7k4NGhRNGKtk-LM0h02KjbT4-8tZHrtI2BtFnRwM8/s400/DSC_0022_5.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The work has a momentum of its own now as I realise what its about and where its going. It seems so glaringly obvious but hindsight is a great thing and often you can’t grasp what is so immediate in the present. Meidan Talo encapsulates an intense frozen moment of a need for ‘home’ a constant place where I am safe. When I was growing up home was never calm or predictable and perhaps this is the truth of the matter; I had to make a home in my head. I took refuge through absorbing myself in worlds created in drawings and paintings - this is what I still do years on. Meidan Talo (Our House) has perhaps materialised a realisation, as my friend Lee so astutely observed when seeing the work, that home is a state of mind. </span></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Arranging and re-arranging Meidan Talo combinations will pre-occupy me for the next few days as I work out which pieces fit together. The wallpaper, household objects, lace, tar and paint all connect in their various forms and its like a puzzle that never has any one outcome. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Art is such a strange business you never quite know where you are with it. You make it and you have the excitement or frustration and then you are completely bemused by it all – what on earth is going on ? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You kind of know because as you work you are submerged into an inner world which has its own logic and set of references which you negotiate by instinct, experience, critical sensibility etc but when you come out of that world and someone asks what is it about – I can only stare at them blankly – like its trying to describe the impossible. It’s that verbalising of the visual and it’s a real struggle. So when it takes half a morning to draft a readable paragraph on what your art practice is about, it reveals a gap that’s always there between these two realities. </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Obviously </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">as time goes on </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">you</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> can</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> achieve an objectivity and then you </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">can consider whether the work is successful in what you intended. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However this can change as the work might suggest a different direction and set of possibilities. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There's another gap that I’m currently trying to unravel as I explore sentimentality and fear. The sentimentality in the domestic decorative and what it shields us from – the incomprehensible – the wilderness that is at the source of our fears.</span></span></span><br />
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</div>These are some of the small pieces that I've been working on in the last month here at KulttuuriKauppila. I've put them together to photograph and its interesting how it changes them. They've been placed around the studio in different ways whilst in progress so I think this format is the direction they are heading in. What interests me is the nature of how the paint and tar create spaces that suggest huge vistas and the collage constructs another layer of this visual narrative. The decorative motifs seem to disrupt and at other times fix the spaces. I'm working on how to play with these elements as they are all so much a part of what my experience in Finland suggests to me.Veronica Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583482096092539296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878619207542737412.post-67052944264824703632010-02-21T01:38:00.000-08:002010-04-07T06:09:54.770-07:00trip to southern lapland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Have returned from a trip up north to Roveniemi with my partner Jane and so glad to get back to the studio and apartment and see my new finnish friends - it feels like home. KulttuuriKauppila is a very special place and the residency is having such a creative impact. Today the temperature with windchill is minus 35 and the photos that follow I hope give a feel of what its like being in sub zero temperatures. Most of them are taken in Syote where we also visited and its a landscape that is enchanting and scary, particularly when lost. We learnt to cross country ski and off we went into the frozen wilderness....<br />
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the point where we are seriously lost<br />
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and finally we reach a landmark and know our sense of direction was right...<br />
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frozen but relieved !Veronica Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583482096092539296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878619207542737412.post-45636341297789730532010-02-21T00:53:00.000-08:002010-02-21T00:54:48.686-08:00the ice road across the frozen sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1tmKlmfBiXEDXrjB8yDdZx0-0BctKG6QnkMLAPS29oOFKtBCNU3QbX8Hqrcr3oaykeNCOJGd92jN4kcA7A_ZaMjRuFhyeFV3BCo3W8P_Au3wXoKjzNaBpdM2VhRk7vP7AzNiqiVIWNw/s1600-h/DSCN1953.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1tmKlmfBiXEDXrjB8yDdZx0-0BctKG6QnkMLAPS29oOFKtBCNU3QbX8Hqrcr3oaykeNCOJGd92jN4kcA7A_ZaMjRuFhyeFV3BCo3W8P_Au3wXoKjzNaBpdM2VhRk7vP7AzNiqiVIWNw/s400/DSCN1953.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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and of course what should I find there .......Veronica Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583482096092539296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878619207542737412.post-91757506227161784062010-02-01T06:10:00.001-08:002010-02-21T05:09:13.243-08:00work from the studio & lace lamp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7z9r8ATl8hnYA0XuiWeVCaguCm_0RzJKrRl-E6AkIx4xIqnyQ_VZjdBq3IhOjog_5s_rxbJkypjg_Ub6NhPMoGs40Ejn2pRQjuW_Bx-67TBmmB9XZGzpUB43VFTzJbCM61Pi7DkC2JHw/s1600-h/DSCN1836.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7z9r8ATl8hnYA0XuiWeVCaguCm_0RzJKrRl-E6AkIx4xIqnyQ_VZjdBq3IhOjog_5s_rxbJkypjg_Ub6NhPMoGs40Ejn2pRQjuW_Bx-67TBmmB9XZGzpUB43VFTzJbCM61Pi7DkC2JHw/s400/DSCN1836.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGG59oFXtg16vIXJEhOZr0DkJeTgbNMgJA9WhDkuEpBDSbtec2j0E73S6cJbM_BoxqQYq7T1p8mhZ-ALXpL6p2BpNZhldeQtRT5EkXDcnwVZ4F5V_rt97UqvHAJLPVYbxiycT0lHqnFw/s1600-h/DSCN1612.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGG59oFXtg16vIXJEhOZr0DkJeTgbNMgJA9WhDkuEpBDSbtec2j0E73S6cJbM_BoxqQYq7T1p8mhZ-ALXpL6p2BpNZhldeQtRT5EkXDcnwVZ4F5V_rt97UqvHAJLPVYbxiycT0lHqnFw/s400/DSCN1612.JPG" width="367" /></a></div>Veronica Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583482096092539296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878619207542737412.post-29106133232033619232010-02-01T01:55:00.001-08:002010-02-01T03:06:38.879-08:00I've discovered tar and its amazing to work with. It comes from the trees and was the main industry here for many years. It was sent all over the world mainly to glue the wood in boats. The smell cures everything along with vodka and saunas and if none of these work ...it is your time. Have been listening to talks on the radio and podcasts from the Tate - a fantastic resource - and key thoughts stick in my mind. One of which is 'wilderness is a state of mind' from the 'Wilderness to Wasteland' talk. For whatever reason this is resonating with me as I move through this snowbound landscape with a frozen river that at the same time has neatly laid out houses and hey - I've found my first caravan ! Enjoy........Veronica<br />
PS. To Linda... as it happens I am reading Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver - yes very apt...Veronica Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583482096092539296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878619207542737412.post-58089283972569029332010-01-16T11:05:00.000-08:002010-01-16T11:37:31.981-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">Hi <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">This is a first attempt at blogging - it will be short and sweet with lots of pictures. I want to share what has begun as an extraordinary adventure - a journey to Finland in the middle of winter. I am on a four months arts residency at KulttuuriKauppila in Ii near Oulu. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">The blog will be an extended visual diary documenting ideas, images, work in progress and anything else that becomes relevant. It will have all the haphazardness and chaos of a sketch book. Its about making art. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">A good place to start is my website www.veronicaslater.com that has new images. However it doesn't have the latest piece of work - 24 hour Tor Mor - 2009, a series of 24 paintings. This is where my blog begins ........<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">I hope you will enjoy and all feedback is much appreciated but time limits how much I can respond - I hope you will understand.....<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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