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Artist - Gosia Wlodarczak email
Born
06.11.1959, Poland
1979-1984
Study at Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. Faculty: Drawing, Painting
and Graphic Art
1984
Master of Fine Arts, with Distinction, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
1989
-1994 applied research & creative activity: Asia, Europe & Australia;
1996 Settled in Perth, WA;
2005
Lives & works in Melbourne.
2006
Represented by The Drawing Center of New York (USA) through Artist Registry
and Viewing Program
See Exhibitions, Bibliography, Grants below.
SKIN OF THE WALL
Synopsis
Skin of the Wall is a very large-scale (74.5 m2) installation, which
is first hybrid of drawing and sound I have made. It is made in my private
interior space, and designed it to inhabit a wall in a more public space
(the gallery). This was in order to create a tension through the juxtaposition
of the spaces, where spaces act on each other – interact. Many people will
move in and out of the installation space causing constant change.
The final work, which took 17 months to develop, is a large drawing
installation comprising 676 small panels (wallpaper on paperboard). Each
panel is individually cut, mounted and drawn on, and then connected by
additional lines to its neighbouring panels.
The process I employed was drawing with the intention to record the
present continuous moment. This is the way in which I try to translate
my living energy into the line.
Whilst drawing I was moving through our entire house interior: the bedroom,
the guest room, the computer studio, the kitchen and the gallery. The resulting
“substance of drawing” is built up with accumulated outlines of objects
and shapes, which were registered by countless singular glances, and in
a same time, catalogued by my moving hand.
The overall drawing exactly fits the Helen Maxwell Gallery wall, its
height 4.4 meters, width 16.91 meters. Two doors, a series of small windows
along the top of the wall and several power points punctuate the drawing.
The work also incorporates a sound component. This marks a new experimental
direction in my practice. While the line I draw is a visual translation
of our ability to look and see, the sound is an aural translation of the
same. I made an inventory of the same private interior space using musical
notation (different notes represent different objects, and they are positioned
on music staffs according to the objects position in my space). I then
worked with a composer, Alistair Noble, who made realization of my “notes’
inventory of visible” into digital sounds. The resulting soundtrack accompanies
the drawing installation during the exhibition at the gallery.
For the Skin of the Wall project to be completed I need to install the
work in a number of situations and contexts. Skin of the Wall is meant
to inhabit walls in more than one public space (at the moment I have not
found another, second realm, to show Skin of the Wall … but I am looking).
The installation needs to be ‘transplanted’ to another space, one big enough,
to show it on the wall not as ‘the wall’ but as ‘the skin'. In this way
it becomes a container of absorbed interactive energy, and will loose its
function as a barrier for inner against outer.
Gosia Wlodarczak 2006
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Photos:
Longin Sarnecki
Skin of the Wall, installation in progress: the top of 11 rows.
At Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, August 2006
Skin of the Wall, installation in progress: top right corner
of the wall.
At Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, August 2006
Skin of the Wall, composite image of entire drawing installation
at
Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, August 2006.
Gosia Wlodarczak, 2005/2006
676 panels - pigment, gesso, acrylic on wallpaper on paper board
Overall size: 440 x 1691 cm
Skin of the Wall, installed; side view. At Helen Maxwell Gallery,
Canberra, August 2006
Gosia Wlodarczak, 2005/2006
676 panels - pigment, gesso, acrylic on wallpaper on paper board
Overall size: 440 x 1691 cm
Skin of the Wall, detail of few panels installed around the
right door, the right window and the exit sine..
At Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, August 2006
Gosia Wlodarczak, 2005/2006
pigment, gesso, acrylic on wallpaper on paper board
Skin of the Wall, detail of drawing on one panel.
Gosia Wlodarczak, 2005/2006
pigment, gesso, acrylic on wallpaper on paper board
Skin of the Wall, detail of two panels installed around an electric
switch.
Gosia Wlodarczak, 2005/2006
pigment, gesso, acrylic on wallpaper on paper board
Artist talk during Skin
of the Wall exhibition at Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 12
August 2006.
Gosia Wlodarczak during
drawing performance: Personal Space/Safety Zone 7, 2004
Places where Gosnia's work
can be viewed and is represented by:
Arc
One Gallery - 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Vic 3000, Australia
Helen
Maxwell Gallery - Level 1, 42 Mort Street, Braddon ACT 2612
Gallery
East - 94 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle, Perth 6159, W.A., Ausrtalia
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Biography:
Solo
Exhibitions (selected)
2006
LIVING EDGE, Gallery East, North Fremantle, Western Australia
2006
SKIN OF THE WALL, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2006
SHARED SPACE, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2005
SPACE ACTIVE, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia
2005
THIS IS WHAT WAS THERE, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2005
PERSONAL SPACE/SAFETY ZONE 8, International Drawing Conference, SASA, UniSA
2004
NOW, Gallery East, North Fremantle, Western Australia
2004
DAWN TO DUSK, Arc One/Span Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
2004
SAFETY ZONE, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2003
MAGNOLIA, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
2002
DRAWING CONTINUOUS, Gallery East, North Fremantle, Western Australia
2002
MEETING YOU THERE, Space Untitled, New York, USA
2002
GRAFFITI FOR INTERIORS, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
2001
AWARD WORKS, Moores Building, Fremantle, Western Australia
2000
CARTOGRAPHY, Roar Studios, Melbourne, Victoria
1999
THE SURFACES OF TIME, Impressions Gallery PMWA, Perth, Western Australia
1999
LANGUAGE, Moores Building, Fremantle, Western Australia
1998
PERMANENT RESIDENCY, ARM Gallery, Poznan, Poland
1998
TAKING A STAND, Moores Building, Fremantle, Western Australia
1989
NEW WORKS, PSP Gallery, Poznan, Poland
1984
NEW WORKS State Cultural Centre, Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland
1984
GILGAMESH, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
Group
Exhibitions (selected)
2006
The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (also:
2005, 2004, 2003)
2006
Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, South Australia
2006
THE FREE PRESS, Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
2006
The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia;
(also: 2005, 2004, 2002)
2006
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Regional Art Gallery,
Swan Hill, Victoria (also: 2004)
2006
Melbourne Art Fair, Gallery East, Royal Exhibition Building (also: 2002)
2006
MINE OWN EXECUTIONER, Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia
2006
The Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
2005
DRAWN OUT, curator: Hannah Mathews, Perth institute of Contemporary Art,
Western Australia
2005
City of Perth National Art Award, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art,
Western Australia
2005
MEMORY STATION, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2004
5th Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2004
Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, Touring exhibition,
Australia
2004
Hutchins Art on Paper Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (also: 2003)
2003
mix tape, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2003
POLISH ART CONFRONTATIONS ’03, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2003
The Regular Paper, ENMU-R, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
2003
Sydney International Art on Paper Fair, Gallery East, Fox Studios, Sydney,
NSW
2003
Art on the Rocks, ASN Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
2003
Bunbury Biennale, Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia; (also: 2001)
2002
The Free Art Biennial, New York, USA
2002
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2002
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia (also:
1999)
2002
Melaspina, Miniature Print Biennale, Montreal, Canada
2001
ROCHE Contemporary Art, PCL Exhibitionists Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001
Hazelhurst Art Award for Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery,
Sydney, NSW
2000
The Toowoomba Biennale Art Exhibition, Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
1999
OUTBACK, Broken Hill Art Gallery, NSW
1999
Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool, Victoria
1998
Western Edge, Print Council of Canada, Vancouver, Canada
1996
International Book Fair, Jerusalem, Israel
1989
Polish Art Fair, Poznan Trade Fair, Poland
1988
PLANEAIR, State Gallery and Museum, Rybnik, Poland
1988
4th International Triennial of Drawing, Wroclaw, Poland
1987
International Quadrennial of Woodcut & Linocut, Olsztyn, Poland
1986
International Triennial of Drawing, Kalisz, Poland
Prizes
and Awards (selected)
2005
The Hutchins Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2005
Whyalla Art Prize, Country Arts South Australia
2004
Henry James Art Hotel Award, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2003
Joondalup Art Prize, Western Australia
2001
Minnawarra Art Festival, Armadale, Western Australia (also: 2000)
2000
PrintsWA 2000, Fremantle, Western Australia
2000
Work on Paper, City of Melville Art Awards, Western Australia (also: 1999,
1997)
1999
Pen/Pencil, Albany Art Prize, Western Australia
1999
Drawing, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Art Awards, Western Australia
1999
Miniature, The Katanning Art Prize, Western Australia
1998
Joy Johnson Memorial Award for Linocut, Prints WA, Moores Building, Fremantle,
Western Australia
1988
Young Polish Printmakers Award, Katowice, Poland
Grants
2006
New Work Established, Australia Council, NSW
2004
New Project Grant, Ministry of Culture and the Arts WA
2003
Artflight, Ministry of Culture and the Arts WA, Australia; (also: 2002,
2001, 2000)
1999
WA Centenary of Women’s Suffrage Grant 1999/2000, Western Australia
1988
Fellowship for Outstanding Young Artists (One Year), President of
Poznan, Poland
Collections
(selected)
National
Gallery of Australia; Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria;
State Gallery and Museum, Rybnik, Poland;
Academy
of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland; Chang Mai University, Thailand; Edith Cowan
University, WA; ENMU-R, Roswell, New Mexico, USA; Murdoch University, WA;
The Hutchins School, Tasmania; Royal Perth Hospital, WA; Sir Charles Gardener
Hospital, WA; The Australian Print Collection, Wagga Wagga, NSW; Print
Council of Canada; London Print Workshop, UK;
BHP;
BankWest, Australia; Bullseye, Portland, USA; Henry James Art Hotel, Hobart;
Minter Ellison Lawyers, Canberra; City of Armadale, WA; City of Joondalup,
WA; City of Whyalla, SA; Shire of Katanning, WA; and private
Bibliography
BOOKS
2006
The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, pp: 1034, 1161, 1170,
Aus Art Editors and The Miegunyah Press
2004
Dr David Bromfield NOW (Gosia Wlodarczak drawing 1986-2004) 108pp, Brown
Art, East Perth, Western Australia
2002
Prof. Urszula Kaczmarek Polish emigration after 1989: Polish artists in
Perth - M. Wlodarczak and L. Sarnecki 458-468pp, Jagiellonski University,
Cracow, Poland
CATALOGUE ESSAYS (selected)
2006
David Hansen Drawn in, Drawn out Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2006
Ashley Crawford I see therefore I am Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Michele Elliot Living Edge Gallery East, North Fremantle, Western Australia
2005
Dr Christopher Crouch this is what was there Arc One Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
2005
Dr Ian McLean Drawing blind: process in Gosia Wlodarczak’s art Perth Institute
of Contemporary Art, Western Australia
2002
Dr David Bromfield, Please Enter - Gosia Wlodarczak and the banality of
description Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2002
Dr Jan Altmann Walls Gallery East, North Fremantle, Western Australia
JURNALS (selected)
2006
Sonia Barron Gallery wall wrapped in Wlodarczak skin The Canberra Times/Times2,
1/09, ACT, Australia
2004
Dr Ian McLean Poetics of Agrophobia Artlink, Vol 24, No3 Sep 04, South
Australia
2004
Simon Blond Artist Makes a Point with Lines The West Australian, 1/05,
Western Australia
2004
Sasha Grishin Layered scribblings trace a sense of home as sanctuary The
Canberra Times 20/7, ACT, Australia
2002
Dr D. Bromfield, Laying it Down - Plane as Possible Behind 8ball, issue
27-01/05/02, Perth, WA
2001
Michael Kilmann, Printmakers WA profile, “Grafiknett” No1/01, Stockholm,
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