Artist Interview: Chris De Rosa

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 designer
  
  Guildhouse 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.