VD XXIV – Carol Christie, Charles Haines, Joyce Liu
Bio:
A self taught artist, Carol Christie is new to painting having delved into it only in the last 4 years.
Vibrant colour is her inspiration as well as texture. She uses acrylic, charcoal, chalk and oil pastel and collage techniques on paper and canvas.
As well as living in the beautiful and wild East Coast of New Zealand, Carol has travelled to many places in the world and has lived in Asia for more than 12 years – colour, texture, flavour, light and feel all have their influence.
Now living and teaching in Taipei.
Has previously exhibited at Café Vergissmeinicht in 2016.
Whatever will happen next………
Statement:
Diving Deeper
I discovered the painter in me in the last few years……moving to Taiwan to start another chapter created a space to dive in and go for it
I have always loved colour and have always created ……..be it gardens, houses, writing, knitting, sewing, drawing and painting with 5 year olds but had never painted for myself
I have made up for lost time experimenting with any materials I can get my hands on – oil, acrylic, collage, pastel, charcoal, paper, canvas – large and small
You can never quite tell what will happen and what the end result will be as each piece has a life and story of its own as it unfolds before you
There is tension and struggle as you try to control the materials but in the end you must surrender to colour, the push and pull and the way it sings
Be bold
Be fierce
Dive in
Visual Dialogues XXIV
Carol Christie, Charles R. Haines, and Joyce Liu
Artist Bio
Charles R. Haines has two spirits that work together in his art. One is the crow spirit that has been part of him for many years. The other spirit is an Indiginous spirit. These two fuse together to give him his creative energy. It is with this energy he creates his art.
Charles creates in many mediums, though these days mostly in acrylic and marker. He has been known to carve wood, work leather and shape iron. His artistic spirits are happiest when he is creating and so he draws everyday.
Artist Statement
The Crow Spirit has awakened.
It stirs inside me and speaks
Drives me to create.
It can not be silenced. It will not stop unless I put brush to canvas, pen to paper, or chisel to wood.
Only then is the spirit satisfied.
My art is a result of this spirit inside me.
I must listen to its call.
Charles Haines
murder.of.crows.10.5@gmail.com
Visual Dialogues XXIV
Carol Christie, Charles R. Haines, and Joyce Liu
1 November 2015, Visual Dialogues 藝術對畫 II
Ted Pigott and JJ Chen
Animation. Illustration. Sketches 動畫 插圖 素描
Please join these two artists for their Visual Dialogue Red Room Gallery November 1 – December 5, 2015
邀您進入以下兩位藝術家的視覺對畫
OPENING RECEPTION 開幕酒會 November 1 2015 3:00 pm ~ 7:00 pm
For six years, Red Room has been growing and changing and staying the same. This month’s featured artists, JJ Chen and Ted Pigott, are Red Roomers. Their sketches of Red Room events, watercolors, drawings, and animation embody the Red Room identity. The Arts are for everyone, and Red Room is a platform for everyone to share their art.
六年來，紅房不斷的成長及蛻變。11月份紅房「藝術對畫」所推出的二位藝術家為JJ Chen及Ted Pigott。匯集其在紅房歷年活動中的速寫，體現出紅房的特色並涵蓋其他水彩，素描和動畫等作品。藝術欣賞適於所有人，而紅房也樂於提供此平台，讓藝術家們能與所有人分享他們的創作。
Ted Pigott is from Northwest Indiana, just outside of Chicago, in the American Midwest. After graduating cum laude from DePauw University with a degree in English Composition, he lived in New York City, traveled throughout Europe, and worked and traveled in several parts of Asia, including China, Tibet, and India.
He is now based in Taipei, a city he has grown to love during his eighteen years here. These days, when he’s not exploring Taipei’s back alleys and leafy lanes on his bicycle, he can be found in the city’s cafés and restaurants, eating and drawing, especially at lunchtime.
As an artist, he believes these things are true: Draw what you see. Draw what you love, and love what you draw. Share your work. Don’t think—just draw. Every day is better when you draw.
JJ Chen is a Taiwanese animation director who was born in France and grew up in Belgium – where he studied animation directing before moving back to Taiwan in late 2007. Since then, he’s been alternating between animations for music videos and commercials, working on concept art, storyboards and post production for Taiwanese animated TV series and feature films, and animation work on independent videogames. He also used to draw a lot of sketches of various people to document his daily life and commutes whenever he had time.
As a director of animated shorts, he’s covered pretty much all the phases of production, and is a well-rounded visual storyteller. As such, he also participated in the past 2 years’ Tainan 39H and Taipei 48H Film Challenges, twice as an actor, and twice as director.
He’s been working for the past 2 years on a Chinese smartphone video game company in Taipei on a game that will hit the Apple Store and Android Market in the next coming months, and is now taking a well-deserved break.
In parallel, since last year, he is thinking more and more about switching to photography, which has always been his other passion, and is now replacing his sketchings on his daily life documenting.
Visual Dialogues 藝術對畫
between people, spaces and ideas
Two artists from different cultures with be featured in a monthly art show at the Red Room International Village, opening on the first Sunday of each month.
紅房會邀請兩位分別來自西洋及東方的藝術家來展出他們的作品，讓藝術氣息繚繞在紅房國際村的樑柱之間。
在每月的第一個週日，邀請您們一同享受創意與空間的對談。Gallery Timings: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 3pm to 7pm.
Contact constancewoods@mac.com
玉米
1991年出生於基隆市
2010年加入台大登山社
2014年畢業於台灣大學生化科技系
2014年於下田窯向 徐興隆老師與 洪瑩琪老師拜師學陶兩年
2016年創立迷你窯工作室
作為一個冒險家，我爬山，我溯溪，我攀岩，我樂於奔向自己的所愛。
作為一場人生冒險的開始，我選擇了不平凡的荊棘之路。大學的最後一年，我拋下一切，挑起了一場人生的賭博，賭的是夢想的實踐、博的是不後悔的人生與渴望創作的悸動。曾經挨餓，曾經迷惘，曾經害怕，曾經痛哭，我一步步地拔除身上的刺，一步步的越挫越勇，終於有了機會辦了第一場展覽，雖小卻美，更是我短短三年邁向陶藝創作之路的里程碑。
如果沒有當初放手一搏，今日恐怕來的更晚，甚至不會實現
Joyce
1991 Born in Keelung City
2010 Join to the NTU mountain club
2014 Graduated from Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, NTU
2014 Learned potteries from 徐興隆and 洪瑩琪 in 下田窯
2016 Set up 迷你窯
As an adventurer, I go mountain climbing, river tracing, rock climbing. I enjoy doing what I love.
As a beginning of my life adventure after graduating, I chose a much harsher way-a thorny road to my freedom. In the last year of my college, I cast away all my own profession and devoted to a whole different art world. It’s literally like the gamble. Gamble on my dream, Walk through the life without regret and my heart burns again for creation.
Even though, I was once lost, confused, terrified, and even shed tears. Step by step, I lived, savored every difficulty and consumed. I believe that the more frustrated I am, the stronger I will be. Finally, here comes to my first show in this lovely place, not too grand but fragrant. Now it’s the time to create.
Without giving it a shot, there would be no today.
Statement
一株草的價值
世界上有很多奇花異草，擁有我們的珍惜。世界上有許多野花野草，卻常常遭到我們的踐踏。在花草的世界，我也許就是那野花野草，在人類的世界，我用陶器，將平凡變不平凡，將野花野草納入陶器的時尚界。
你曾經以為自己平凡又弱小嗎？在我的生活圈裡，認識很多駐足不前的人，很多生活迷惘的人；在這個世代，有很多擁有夢想卻屈服於金錢之下的人；在我做陶的日子裡，不斷思考人生的問題。想不透，便看看天空，再不透，看看地上。世界如此之大，而我就像那野花野草，擠身於世界之牆的一道狹縫，透過花瓶，我才能脫離縫隙，被人看見。花瓶象徵一個希望，化腐朽為神奇，化平凡為不平凡。
人生苦短，至少曾經美過。試著找尋屬於你的容身之所！
Title
The price of the weeds
There are many unique plants, we cherish them. There are many unknown flowers and grass, we trample on them. In the world of plants, I may be the grass which means nobody. In the human world, I help nobody to be somebody by using pottery. Take nobody to the red carpet of the plant world.
Have you ever been normal and weak? I know a lot of people hesitating to proceed, confused to their lives. In this generation, people give up dreaming and give in to money. Every day I pot, I keep thinking a lot about the philosophy of life. Life is truly hard to manage. When it makes no sense, then look up to the sky. When it happens again, then look at the ground. I am like the weeds in the gap, as the small dust to the world. Nevertheless, with a vase, the weeds can be seen. Turn bad into good. Turn nobody to somebody.
Life is short, at least we were once beautiful. Try to figure out who you are. We are not only nobody and let Nature heal you.
Visual Dialogues XXIV
Carol Christie, Charles R. Haines, and Joyce Liu
