rebecca isgrove volume 2, 2006, #020

rebecca isgrove lives in sydney, australia and is studying literature at university and takes photographs of her feelings and her memories and her surroundings and loves winter and writing poems and using punctuation incorrectly.

1. how would you explain 'art' - in 19 words or less? human creativity. something beautiful and/or significant.

2. what is the first work of art you ever loved? informally, my first experiences of art were probably the kind on my parents' and grandparents' walls. i used to love imagining things about all the people in the old-fashioned photographs at my grandmother's house. otherwise, someone had a print of mother and child (by klimt) that i really loved as a child.

3. how important is theory to your art? while theory is rather important to my work, i'm not usually thinking too technically or analytically while taking photographs. of course, i think about their meaning as a whole collection, but individually they're taken on the spur of the moment. theory comes after the event.

4. describe your ideal art workspace. i don't really need much more room than i have now, but somewhere where i could make lots of mess and noise and not have people coming in and out would be nice. a big space with big windows and lots of natural light (and no carpet!) would be lovely.

5. describe your current art workspace. a desk in a study that i share with another person. not a very big space.

6. if you could be placed in suspended animation and safely reanimated at some time in the future with the sole purpose being to see how history treated you / your art, would you do it?
i think i'd be happy enough not to know. ignorance is bliss, after all.

7. who are some of your favourite artists (contemporary or canonical)? cindy sherman, laura letinsky, hossein valamenesh, pat brassington, and bill henson.

8. tell us about a gallery (online or physical space) that you think rocks, and why you think it rocks. the roslyn oxley9 gallery in sydney rocks; the MCA in sydney rocks; auckland art gallery is pretty rockin' too. i'm sure i'm forgetting a million places that rock.

9. would you choose the baked bean jaffle or the caramelised pumpkin and red onion tart with crispy radicchio and hazelnut salad with apple vinaigrette? both, because i'm hungry.

10. finish this sentence: "the work of art can / cannot be considered separately to the artist because ________." ultimately, the work cannot be considered separately from the artist because the artist brought it into being.

check out more of rebecca's work at: www.noise.net/rebeccaisgrove

untitled (roses), c-type photograph, 2005

untitled (lamp), c-type photograph, 2005

untitled (door), c-type photograph, 2005

untitled (bed), c-type photograph, 2005

untitled (sleep), c-type photograph, 2005