Details
First Name | Michele |
Last Name | Marcoux |
Username | michelemarcoux |
Website | |
Region | Edinburgh & The Lothians |
Disciplines | Painting, Installation |
Themes | Figurative, Landscape, Narratives, Environment |
Statement
Statement | I am a visual artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. I make paintings and collage, often in the landscape, and use video to document and discover new ideas. Each piece of work is individual but also part of an unfolding process. Painting is a means to think, to feel, to remember, to analyze. My work often starts with a story but that is not necessarily where it ends.
I grew up an identical twin in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and lived in Vermont, Pennsylvania, California and New York City before moving to Scotland in the 1990’s. For many people who migrate, ‘identity’, ‘place’, ‘home’ are shifting, transitory. My work draws on this displacement to look at the beauty and danger of nostalgia and the unreliability of memory. |
Biography
Biography | Michele Marcoux is a visual artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland working with painting, drawing, moving image, and found objects to create individual works and installations. Starting with something found, captured, stolen (a place, materials, objects, images from the internet), these artefacts become a way into something else – a hidden narrative, an uncanny synthesis, a physical experience. She works outdoors and experiments in the studio to unlock meaning and imagination. The results intertwine personal narratives with global ghost stories – our haunted existence in a fragmented world. Michele grew up as an identical twin in Cleveland in North Eastern Ohio living in California then New York City before moving to Scotland where she still lives. As for many people who migrate, ‘place’, ‘identity’, ‘home’ are not constants but shifting, transitory, even transferable. This is a key idea within her work. Michele studied Fine Art at Bennington College in Vermont, getting her BA in Fine Art (cum laude) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 2016 Michele completed a Masters of Letters Fine Art Practice (with Distinction) at Glasgow School of Art. April 2021 Creating a Pandemic Imaginary – In April Michele will undertake a month-long artist’s residency at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland for the research and development of new work. Funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Fund, Creating a Pandemic Imaginary will develop ideas inspired during lockdown. Working in the Scottish landscape and a studio located in disused lemonade factory, Michele will develop painting and drawing ideas using observation and automatic/DADA techniques, expanding and documenting the process with timelapse video. June – Dec 2021 Ecologies of Displacement – in June Michele will begin a 6 month residency and collaboration with Pakistani artist Farrukh Adnan funded through a British Council and Creative Scotland Connect and Collaborate grant. The residency is also supported by Koel Gallery in Karachi and Summerhall in Edinburgh. Despite the contrasting geographical and cultural landscapes of their origins (Michele is from Cleveland Ohio and Farrukh is from the ancient Punjabi village of Tulumba), they share a mutual search for connections, through dreams, memories and symbolic representations, to the locus of childhood. Reaching across vast and vivid boundaries, bound by the global currents of pandemic and climate catastrophe, they will experiment and grow their practices to create collaborative bodies of work on the urgent theme of “Ecologies of Displacement”. The work will be exhibited at Koel Gallery in Karachi in Jan 2022 and at Summerhall during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2022. Below is a summary of Michele’s recent exhibitions
Michele regularly exhibits in group shows in Scotland and in London at Studio 1.1. |
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