Congratulations to Alex Keatinge who has been selected to receive our Graduate Residency Award for this coming September. Alex will receive a studio residency and peer mentoring in Ormond Art Studios for the month and all of this will culminate in a solo exhibition in the Ormond Art Studios Project Space.

Alex says: “My practice is concerned with the intimate space of the body – its oddities,
sensations and discomfort. My work begins at the boundary of the skin with the
curiosity in mind of how the body reacts when it encounters another body or object.
Through the creation of tactile objects and photographs that invite a bodily response,
I investigate the gap between person and object, the hand and the artwork.
Oftentimes my work is about exaggerating this gap in order to explore how
something can be both familiar and strange at the same time and how this can also
apply to the body. By using a method of reform and remove, I create works that pace
the line between knowingness and uncertainty.”

We are so excited to share the studios with Alex and can’t wait to see what she does with her time here! Watch this space!