Reportage: Contemporary Arts and
Culture
Independent Media for National and
International Arts
Bula's Artist Interviews
Interview with Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney,
Artist
22 September 2019
Late September 2019 and a bright crisp
Autumn day. I went to meet an Artist I have several times before over
the years of her professional art career. We had arranged to meet for
lunch.
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney is an Artist,
Curator and Author and has had a very diverse life and equally in her
creativity. Renowned for challenging preconceptions and still at
times shifting from contemporary art and to re-energise Fine Art
transitions with a new media twist.
Interviewer: Hello, Gaynor. I am
familiar with your art work, but I am interested to know what you
have been doing of late?
Artist: Hi … As of late, do you mean
the past months or past few years?
Interviewer: The past year or so?
Artist: I have continued with my
creative interests in Abstract painting, but still to explore more
within the realms of digital media and at times with a performance
investigation. I have been looking at alternative media and
researching three-dimensional and installation environments
specifically with an interactive and audience development feature.
This is still under way.
Interviewer: What do you hope to
realise from the new work?
Artist: An artificial environment by
the means of new media is nothing new and something I have done
before with sensory, sound-works and optical engineering on several
projects, but this time I want to explore the more subtle and
implicit relationships the audience can form through various
environmental experiences. I am still interested in the process of
abstraction, but not merely on the conceptualisation rather to be
witnessed, shared and experienced. I want to try and achieve
something that is more akin to the sentience of a person. Something
that is there, but not there. I am still in the process of research
and development on this and the work will be released in a year from
now.
Interviewer. In terms of your other
activities what is else is new with you?
Artist: Other than continuing with my
independent practice I am in preparation of further research with
some other international Artists. That I will publicise nearer the
time when the final collaborative outcomes are consolidated.
Interviewer: What else do you have
planned?
Artist: As you know, I not only pursue
my professional Art practice, but campaign on an array of subjects
with others like-minded and specifically with an interest to
Children's Rights and Human Rights. Some of the new work under way
will combine themes that align with these subjects. Also, for 2020 I
will be launching a series of Art workshops specifically focused to
these.
Interviewer: What current shows and
upcoming do you have people can come and see?
Artist: My current exhibition, 'Sleep
not of Sleep' concludes in this last week of September 2019. The next
to follow on is 'The Promise' and will run from October to December
2019. The series of exhibitions are around current issues and through
the media of sound, performance and abstraction. In addition to that
is the conclusion period of 'Retrospective', as well as other
on-going initiatives on combined publications.
Interviewer: What can the audience
expect from you in 2020?
Artist: The culmination of series of
work I have been researching and development as I have explained, but
furthermore the release of several publications. Other than that
there is a greater focus to Arts and Cultural projects abroad, as
well as upcoming collaborations.
Interviewer: Thank you for taking the
time to meet with me.
Artist: Thank you,
Bula.
Website: www.gaynorevelynsweeney.webs.com
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