HELP ME TO FINANCE A THREE-WEEK RESIDENCY IN ARGENTINA, a great opportunity for me to learn new techniques in a printmaking Art Centre

I'm a French Printmaking Artist living currently in Perth, Western Australia. I have been working full time as an artist and printmaking teacher for four years. I use a variety of printmaking techniques in my work, including Etching, Linocut, Screen printing and Collagraphy. I also teach these techniques to individuals and groups of children and adults.

www.beauestmien.com.au

What I will be working on

In September 2012, I'm planning to do a Residency for three weeks at Proyecto'Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This residency is an opportunity for me to further investigate and develop my artwork, while gaining access to new facilities and equipment. I will be exposed to printmaking techniques I've never used before (photoetching & photolithography, for instance) and I will have the guidance of Master Printmakers to try my hand at them.

During the past two years I've been steadily inspired by the architecture of big cities such as Paris, New York, and Venice. For me, understanding the architecture and exploring specific buildings of a city is a way to approach human interactions. So, it's a manner for me to better understand the world that I belong to and all that surrounds me. This is why my art is mostly inspired by the social and the urban environments.

Why Buenos Aires

As Buenos Aires is a big city characterized by its European style architecture and its rich cultural life, I would like to learn more about it through an artistic approach and with my artist's eyes. I'd like to use my time at ‘Ace Residency Centre to develop my body of work and study Buenos Aires buildings and its population's interactions. As the centre provides a high quality residency program, it will be a big opportunity to experience a collaborative work with the centre's team of experts and so develop my skills and my creativity while building a network in a friendly and professional environment.

A little about Proyecto ‘Ace (http://www.proyectoace.org/):

From 2005, the Artist in Residence International Program (ARIP) is 'Ace’s core program and the starting point of many of their activities and projects. To be in residence at ‘Ace means to work collaboratively, to receive technical and artistic assistance and to be immersed in a vibrant city's cultural life. While in residence, the artists benefit from intense production time enhanced by the exchange of ideas and experiences with peers.

Artists-in-residence are selected by their proposals submitted through an online open call. ‘Ace pays special attention to projects that question the singularity of the art object by using the reproducible capacity of traditional and/or experimental printmaking techniques, photography, new media and/or design, exploring their mutual interference and hybridizations, as well as those proposals that attempt to make interventions in the urban environment.

Project Team

Magali Dincher

$25 Pledge Reward - You'll get a limited edition rubber stamp with a beautiful flower design!

$35 Pledge Reward - You'll get a limited edition Colouring Book!

$150 Pledge Reward - You'll get a limited edition Etching like the one below!

$2000 Pledge Reward - You'll get a New York limited edition Collagraph print like this one!