28 Setembro 2024 18h00
Zaratan AIR
Artist Talk | TESSA TEIXEIRA & DENNI WATERHOUSE
Artist Talk | TESSA TEIXEIRA & DENNI WATERHOUSE
SCHEDULE | 28th September 18:00
ENTRY | Free
INFO | residencies@zaratan.pt
ENTRY | Free
INFO | residencies@zaratan.pt
ARTIST TALKS is a series of conversations that offer the community a chance to meet the artists-in-residence at Zaratan and to gain insight into the creative process.
During this encounter, Tessa Teixeira and Denni Waterhouse will be available to introduce their artistic practices and to lead visitors on a discussion around the creation imaginary of the work developped during the residency.
The conversation will be held in English; participants are invited to engage and ask questions.
During this encounter, Tessa Teixeira and Denni Waterhouse will be available to introduce their artistic practices and to lead visitors on a discussion around the creation imaginary of the work developped during the residency.
The conversation will be held in English; participants are invited to engage and ask questions.
>>> TESSA TEIXEIRA’s artistic practice and work focus on Existential Philosophy, Ecology and Climate narratives, using painting, mixed media, installation, and printmaking. She completed a Bachelor’s in Primary Education, majoring in Art, in 1991 through the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She was extensively involved in NGO projects addressing access for housing in lower-income communities, rural development and economic needs in South Africa. In 2006 she started actively focusing on her Art practice and embarked on various short Art development programs in San Francisco (2010) and London (2011). Her work is in private and public collections, and she exhibited nationally and internationally. Some recent exhibitions include: ‘Step into the forest’ Solo Show - CONTRA Fair - Johannesburg (SA) (2024); ‘Hide me, Steal me, Be nice to me’ Group Show – ARTE. M Association - Funchal (Madeira) (2024); Victoria Yards – Open Air Art Fair (2023); 'Otherwise Healthy', Group show – GalleryOne11, Cape Town, SA (2022); 'Carbon-Border- Voices'- online group exhibition, UK (2022); WEAD Online magazine ‘Art of Empathy’ feature, USA (2022); 'Ecoartproject' - online artist feature, NYC, USA (2022); '1.5 Degrees' in Berlin, Germany (2021); 'What’s next for earth – Thinking in systems' (2022) & 'Depletion' (2021) – MAHB, Stanford University, USA (2021); 'Nothing stands still' - Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre JHGC (2018). Her work has been featured in various online and printed publications as listed on her website and she recently was a guest speaker on ‘Narratives of CARE’, livestreamed and published in the Insights of an Eco Artist online magazine.
>>> DENNI WATERHOUSE is an artist from Grimsby, England. She is a graduate from Camberwell College of Arts after studying BA Fine Art: Drawing. Her work explores the expansion of ‘insignificant’ daily moments that we tend to overlook. Denni recreates former experiences using an intricate cross-hatching technique, leading to the close inspection and revaluation of the everyday. Through the recreation of ‘minor’ moments we all experience, Denni aims to convey how significant these moments are in relation to people who are no longer with us. Should these moments be over-looked or should we treasure these moments as much as we do the moments we deem significant. When people are no longer here, they miss the moments we tend to disregard. She believes the permanency of creating a work of an insignificant moment, and making herself examine it, is almost allowing her to relive and appreciate it.