Artist Interview: Chris De Rosa SALA Podcast

In this episode, Steph catches up with artist Chris De Rosa in her home studio in Port Elliot. They chat about how she found her way to art-making, the versatility of paper as a material, her recent exhibition Seaweeding, and how living on the coast informs her practice.
 
Show Notes
Transcript of this interview [PDF]
Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec – French painter, printmaker, illustrator
JamFactory
Paper Mache / Papier Mache
flora (noun): the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
Seaweeding exhibition [art almanac] [inDaily]
beachcombing (noun): an activity that consists of an individual “combing” (or searching) the beach and the intertidal zone, looking for things of value, interest, or utility.
Museum of Economic Botany
Jessie Hussey
Spongia: a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae containing more than 60 species.
Porifera: the phylum that sponges belong to.
Taxonomic rank (phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)
The Drowned World, JG Ballard, 1962
Sea Tulip
bust (noun): a sculpture of a person’s head, shoulders, and chest.
Honor Freeman: artist, performer
Mickey Mason: artist & filmmaker
Susi Benger: eco-conscious swimwear designer @CocoAndShy
Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot
Super 8: type of film camera
Giuseppe Faraone: sound designer
Cath Kenneally: writer, poet.
Rosina Possingham: artist, graphic designerGuildhouse Catapult mentorship program
Trent Walter & Stuart Geddes [artguide interview]
Good Bank Gallery, McLaren Vale
Valerie Taylor: artist, filmmaker, marine conservationist
‘Water People’ exhibition (28 May - 31 July 2023) at Coral St Art Space, Victor Harbor
Flinders University Museum of Art
@Chris_DeRosa on Instagram
 
Music: Monplaisir - The Rise The Walk The Hope via FMA.