Christina Kerkvliet Goddard, 3rd Place Winner

Winner of the Spring 2011 Competition

COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES

outsider art that goes beyond the mainstream art culture,

explores issues in today's world from a different perspective

or reveals what is possible when you just don't stay inside the lines.

WEDDING DRESS RED

chenille sticks sculpture

200 x 160 x 170cm

7000. usd

artist statement

I am both a natural and informed mid-career artist. My work takes its base in drawing, craft and painting. I have always been an artist and at the art schools I have attended, have always been left to my own devices.

Looking at my life and my role as a mother and now grandmother, I feel I am keyed into life-cycles in a new generational way and now in a place where I can draw on my relationships with nature in the everyday to explore deeper understanding.

Memory Colours is a series of chenille stick sculptures that revisit and haunt their sites of episode as way to present how colour can be used to generate memory. Grown from a narrative derived chronological memory colour scale, this work reflects and utilises colour, form and context to evoke the permeability of memory and narratives.

As my recent work ‘Wedding Dress Red’ explores memory through ‘color-hazing’ in a three dimensional form, I felt this sculpture’s free-ranging expression touched this competition’s theme ‘coloring outside the lines’ in an innovative and collaborative way.

bio

Born in Victoria and raised in South Australia, Christina grew up amid the active art scene of the late 1960’s and 70’s. Early childhood coloring-in books (Disney were the best), evolved into drawing and at 7 years of age she was selling her drawings for 20 cents for feature of her works on admirer’s fridges.

In her 20’s she achieved her Certificate of Art, followed by her BA of Visual Arts, Uni SA. Many years of arts practice saw brief teaching jobs, commission work, experimental art installation exhibitions – both outside and in mainstream, and community contribution.

In 2009 Christina was accepted into RMIT’S Master of Fine Art Program in Melbourne, Australia of which has confirmed for her that being an outsider is not a bad thing!

selected solo exhibitions

2005 Lace kitchen ~ De kanten keuken SALA Festival 2005, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre
2004 Out of the blue South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2003 The Samorn and George Adelaide Zoo Arts Project Adelaide, South Australia
2002 Materfamilias The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Project Space
2002 Materfamilias The Capital-Bendigo?s Performing Arts Centre, Victoria
2002 Materfamilias Copper Development Centre, Westfield Towers, Sydney
2001 Materfamilias SmartWired Display Home, HomeWorld Display Village, Kellyville NSW
2001 Materfamilias Women?s Health Information Centre, Royal Women?s Hospital Melbourne
1999 Remove & Shake ?Family tincture? Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
1998 Mixed Blessings Sacred Heart Cathedral, St. Patrick?s Chapel, Bendigo Victoria
1996 Aria Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Adelaide

christina kerkvliet

g o d d a r d

moana, south australia [AUSTRALIA]

www.ckgoddard.com.au

christina.8@bigpond.com

ArtSceneToday Q&A

Q: Where do you see yourself in the art scene today?

A: As many artists do, I see myself as an outsider- absorbing and searching for meaning and connectedness amid the everyday and reflecting this each day through pro-active creative expression.

Q: What is in your inspiration?

A: Convergences and the chance encounters whereby expressions of related and connected events appear in the everyday for a brief 'flash' in variable forms and states, and as quickly as they appear, they are to escape - slippery expressions revealing a nanosecond glimpse into the universal connectedness of which we are all part.

Q: What are your challenges?

A: To draw on these insightful episodes with purpose to explore the alchemic processes that work collaboratively to adapt and create these realizations in the first instance.

Q: How did you/do you choose your medium?

A: The Memory Colours series of 12 works reflect a personal cultural history in its bringing together of hybrid practices to produce works that utilise colour, form and context to evoke the permeability of memory and narratives. The nature of this exploration in many ways drives me to search for the medium of choice. I required a material - colour encoded with childhood memories that also allowed flow of thought, could be expanded and created surfaces able to be sculpted into fleeting forms. This is generally the way I choose my medium and mediums are therefore changable depending on the nature, content and context of my working concerns.

Q: Which artist has influenced you the most?

A: I grew up in a natural environment amid paintings by artists influenced by the Abstraction Expressionist movement originating in New York, America in the 1950's. Collage, signs, symbols, colour, line and shape were viewed compositional elements providing free interpretation and flight for the imagination. Contemporary artists with similar working concerns and methods to my own are Mona Hatoum, David Hammons, Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Horn and Claudia-Marie Leunig.

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