Gina Czarnecki
Gina Czarnecki (born 1965, in Immingham) is a British artist. Her art spans a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, installation art, and video and is frequently informed by biomedical science. She is the daughter of a Polish father and an English mother. Czarnecki currently resides in Liverpool, England.[1]
Since the start of her career in the early 1980s, she has participated in several group exhibitions including the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) (1998),[2] Ars Electronica (1999),[3] and the Brisbane Festival for international arts (2009). She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Creative Scotland Award (2002),[4] Fleck Fellowship Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Award (2004),[5] Australian/New Zealand Best Dance Film Award (2005),[6] and Australian Dance Award for Dance on Film (2005).[1][6]
Czarnecki's works 'Nascent', 'Cell Mass N2' and 'Infected' were included in the 2010 edition of 'New Frontier' at the Sundance Film Festival.[7][8] She had a retrospective exhibition[9] at Bluecoat (formerly Bluecoat Chambers) from 9 December 2011 to 19 February 2012, which included the work 'Palaces' commissioned for the exhibition.[10] As a bioartist, Czarnecki's project ‘Heirloom’, created in collaboration with John Hunt from the University of Liverpool, was included in the exhibition ‘No Such Thing as Gravity’[11] at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in 2017 as well as the Medical Museion (Copenhagen) in 2018.[12][13] Her sculpture ‘Tooth Fairy Palace' was exhibited at the Science Museum, London followed by the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry in 2013.[14] Czarnecki’s work ‘I’, employing iris scanning technology, was exhibited as part of the Lumiere festival, Durham, also 2013.[15][16]
Czarnecki's works 'Cell Mass 2[17] and 'Quarantine'[18] were commissioned by Forma UK.[19] Her work Spintex (2008)[20] is held in the Animate Projects[21] archive. Czarnecki's works Tattoo 2 (1991),[22] Parade (1987),[23] Facade (1987)[24] and Moral Judge (1987)[25] are held as part of LUX[26] (formerly London Video Arts).
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Forma Arts Council". forma.org.uk/. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "International Symposium on Electronic Art". isea-web.org. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Ars Electronica". 90.146.8.18/en. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Exhibitions at the Bluecoat". Exhibitions at the Bluecoat. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "The Banff Centre". banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ a b "Adelaide Film Festival". Adelaide Film Festival/. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Sundance announces 13 artists for New Frontier programme".
- ^ https://www.sundance.org/pdf/press-releases/2009-11-18-2010-Sundance-Film-Festival-Announces-New-Fronti.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "The Double Negative » Gina Czarnecki Retrospective – Reviewed".
- ^ "Art-agenda".
- ^ "No Such Thing as Gravity". 11 November 2016.
- ^ "This Bioartist is Exhibiting Living Portraits of her own Daughters". 14 January 2017.
- ^ "The future of pop culture: Robot performers, an avatar Drake and a Kanye West superstore". TheGuardian.com. 17 October 2016.
- ^ "The thought-provoking 'tooth fairy palace'". BBC News. 8 December 2011.
- ^ "Gallery: Lumiere festival of light dazzles Durham". Independent.co.uk. 16 October 2014.
- ^ "Art in the 2010s: The most striking – and shocking – images".
- ^ "Cell Mass N2".
- ^ "Quarantine".
- ^ "Artistic Programme".
- ^ "Animate Projects - Gina Czarnecki".
- ^ "Animate Projects: About - About".
- ^ "Tattoo 2".
- ^ "Parade".
- ^ "Facade".
- ^ "Moral Judge".
- ^ "LUX Artists' Moving Image - What We do".
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