As part of FADs support for emerging artists we have teamed up with The Other Art Fair to showcase 14 of the exhibiting artists at Boxpark.
The Artists where chosen by Ryan Stanier (Fair Director TOAF) and Mark Westall ( Creative Director FAD) and they will have a piece of their work exhibited by poster In an exhibition at The Boxpark Gallery.
There will also be an art opening on Thursday May 3rd which will have live + performance art, Music + free drink + much more.
In the lead up to this event FAD will be showcasing each of the 14 Artists who were chosen
#EIGHT: Geraldine Swayne.
1.If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
I would probably be a gardener, maybe a nurse..
2. Can you tell us more about your work and what are the main ideas you would like to express?I don’t really have ideas to express, it’s more that I am haunted by certain atmospheres. I keep grafting away and occasionally get to watch a painting make itself; one that decides to have the right balance between being about paint, with god technicality, with deliberate lack of any technicality and somehow hopefully assembling into a distilled, poised, discreet and unsettling image.
3. How do you start the process of making work?
Usually I have a wander about, a cry, a lie down, a tidy up, a cup of tea, gaze upon mental tundra of total vacancy etc etc…then it might start.
4. Do you consider the viewer, when making your work?
A bit, it’s usually a very stern judgemental viewer if there is one..
5. Name 3 artists that have inspired your work?
Degas , Ron Kitaj, Howard Dyke
6. Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
Cezane , Richard Serra, Anthony Gormley
7. What defines something as a work of art?
Loads of unknowns in conspiracy, but maybe it’s something someone’s made that goes under the surface of the everyday, and and emotionally makes your hair stand up a bit..it punches a hole through into other worlds..even for a split second.
8. In times of austerity, do you think art has a moral obligation to respond topically?Sometimes artists make work that can only be described as “Fiddling as Rome Burns”. Unconsciously, this can speak volumes about the environment and mentality of the time, and historically can be illuminating,. Also I think work that is “morally obliged” can be really staid and “worthy”. I think the best response to bad times is to be uncowed by it if possible; have your moral compass pointing the right way..and it’ll show up in the work.
9. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
Cave painter in France…I bet they were all women…men never draw animal necks like that..!
10. What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Cronyism…nice visual image
11. What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
“she conjours”
12. And the dumbest?
“..the Victoriana thing…”
13. Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
Jonathan Meese
14. Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
Yes..because I like eating regularly.
15. If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
“Industrilist on Wheels” 2009
16. What’s next for you?
I’d like a gallery to sell my work for me!
The Other Art Fair + FAD pre fair party Thursday May 3rd 2012 from 6pm at Boxpark
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