Everything is Infinitely Malleable
2020
Glazed ceramic
22 x 15 x 10 cm
I Dream of Alternative Worlds and Speculative Futures
2020
Mono-print on collage
39 x 32 x 3 cm
Work created and shown at Standpoint Gallery in 2020 as part of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Residency presentation.
During the Residency Catriona Robertson, Susie Olczak and Veronika Neukirch’s created a testing ground to reflect on each other’s practices, in particular their approach to materials. The studio itself became a combination of workshop and playground, as a way of making and re-making. It stimulated a thinking process, to be instinctive and responsive, with acceptance, rejection and regurgitation drawing on the active processes and materials from Standpoint’s resident studios.
Tapping in to the expertise of the building’s resident artists, Susie Olczak rekindled her engagement with ceramics and further investigated printmaking. The ceramic works sit somewhere between being built and collapsing. Olczak has experimented with different glazes which melt and drip down surfaces. The prints explore layers, combining mono-printing with collage to piece together fragments of experience. Growing the Outside Inside combine print and ceramic processes to create structures which mimic plants seeping into urban space. The packaging continues an ongoing interest in adaptation, movement and repurposing.
Growing the Outside Inside
2020
Glazed ceramic, digital print, packaging, acrylic and mono-print
170 x 60 x 50 cm