Claudia’s residency here at The Rea Garden finished at the end of March 2010. In April Claudia and Veronika headed off to Berlin for a few months to live, whilst getting work ready for Claudia’s future exhibitions. Claudia has been selected as a finalist for the Broomhill Sculpture Prize. Whilst in Berlin Claudia has been blogging about her work and the forthcoming Broomhill piece. As well as returning to Britain for the Broomhill show, Claudia is also producing work for the Harold Martin Botanical Garden at Leicester University. As always Claudia is busy making and planning for future shows and residencies, info about what she is up to and how she is getting on can be found on her blog http://claudiaborgna.blogspot.com/
A lovely interview with some fascinating insight into how Claudia approaches her work… Some lovely ambient music for the first hour to ease you into Claudia’s soundtrack…
It is coming towards the end of Claudia Borgna’s residency here at The Rea Garden. Claudia has been with us throughout this rather cold winter creating temporary pieces of work from her ‘very travelled’ recycled plastic bags. Claudia’s final installation at the site will go on show on Thursday 11th March and will be at the site for a further two weeks. Hopefully anyone who didn’t get an opportunity to pop down and see the work earlier in the residency will be able to make it along before Claudia and her bags head off to The Kew Gardens and then on to Canada.
Join us for the open evening on Thurday 11th March 6 – 9pm
The site will be open daily 11am – 4pm until 28th March 2010.
All welcome.
lovely photo of the private view the other night…
- Claudia Borgna
Only a few days until Claudia Borgna’s first public showing of her work created at The Rea Garden. To keep us warm on Friday evening there will be a small bonfire, mulled cider, hot chocolate rum and not forgetting our trusted wood burner.
Friday 6pm – 9pm, all welcome.
The Rea Garden is also open Friday 12th , Sat 13th and Sunday 14th 11am – 4pm for Claudia’s interim show.
The Rea Garden is now host to the second of four artist residencies over a 12 month period. Claudia Borgna, is now residing at the site and will be with us throughout January, February and March 2010.
Claudia’s work ‘entails the investigation of what she calls the “evolution of landscape”, a process started and effected by modern life-styles and consumerism. Her installations are the materialization of an ongoing observation and questioning of how the “plastic” and the natural realms interact with one another and thereby come to create new ephemeral orders’.
Throughout her residency Claudia expects to create a series of installations from recycled plastic bags, which will be temporary and evolving over the next 10 weeks. There will be an opportunity to meet Claudia, each Friday at The Rea Garden, where she will be on site along with Behind Closed Doors and Ian England of Project Pigeon.
Claudia’s residency will have two public openings, giving the audience the opportunity to see the work transform during her residency. The first private viewing takes place on Friday 12th February 6 – 9pm. From that point the installation will remain in situ, and available to view until Sunday 14th February @ 4pm.
The second of the private viewings takes place at the end of Claudia’s residency – Thursday 11th March 2010, 6pm – 9pm. The work will continue to be on view for a further two weeks.
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