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ART & POSSIBILITIES THAT EVOLVE
art during lockdown
ART during COVID 19
In conjunction with the Australia Council for the Arts and @paddl Rosa was invited to take part in the National Innovation Games. Social distancing has affected her art practice in a myriad of ways, given the nature of how she connects and collaborates with Community, Shires, Stakeholders and in the more private realm of commission orientated projects.
Rosa did not fully appreciate the potential of this virtual event and the gathering of diverse thinkers from across the country. Some battled time differences from Singapore, the UK, and Texas, USA. Not usually interested in a group zoom events, she took part in this two day intensive virtual challenge; and was surprised how quickly the group connected over a mutual commitment to leverage the arts and culture sector.
Given Rosa's recent involvement in the setting up of an Art Exhibition Fundraiser “Art is in Our Nature’, on the Mornington Peninsula, this project became their case study.
#savewesternport plight via an art exhibition was embraced.
ART conversations during COVID
Rosa and I had the privilege of working together on an online challenge during the pandemic lockdowns. We worked with students to develop ideas to help local artists utilise technologies to raise visibility of their work.
Rosa was integral in sharing lived experience and the challenges facing artists and cultural organisations during the program. She was delighted to share and open to the ideas the team developed. The outcome helped support her in her own work, showing the collaborative process was a vital catalyst during a challenging time!
Katy Cooper
Managing Director, DisruptiveCo.
Reflection
Lockdown to many meant walking, reflecting, and learning to
re-engaging with all things that matter.
Image: Artwork seen as the birds see us
Coolart Wetlands Bird hide
encounters revealed
DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIMES OUR THOUGHTS MATTER
Immerse 19 an exhibition that breaks away from the traditional confines of an art gallery. City of Knox commissioned Rosa to create two works on two different sites.
'enCounters revealed' presented as an outdoor site specific work at Coonara House in Ferntree Gully for the month long exhibition. The outdoor installation and the Maggie series artworks exhibited within the Knox City Council foyer relate to about issues that matter.
THE ARTIST - FACILITATOR - observer - maker -
Artistic process
Artistic outcomes
Artistic outcomes
'While personal experience is at the centre of her art practice, it is often through outward connections to community or site that her work unfolds. She consistently explores the tensions between material form and ephemeral light/shadow interplay and her work seamlessly crosses between the platforms of public art and personal professional practice.
Subtle collaborations, impressions and triggers, chance meetings, synchronous moments, and often intimate conversations are crucial to understanding her work.'
Dr Sally Northfield
Education Program Coordinator
United Nations Association Australia (Victoria)
Co-Manager
Women’s Mural Documentation Project
“Rosa’s ability to decipher, interpret and reflect personal stories through symbol, pattern, motif, light and text define her art practice. As she explores and experiments with a variety of materials, whether steel, concrete, felt, or a subversive stitch or two, her stunning art-making practice, enacted consistently using light, photography, collage, cutting, textiles - is an invitation to (re)consider the community and environs of your site & project.”
Artistic outcomes
Artistic outcomes
Artistic outcomes
'Her CV will demonstrate created works which provide specific environments where she focuses on research, the production and the exhibition of cultural projects, especially those ones related to history, culture, community and their environment.
She has been invited to present & exhibit works to celebrate the Women’s Art Register (WAR) 40 Year Celebration. This was quite the installation at the City Library. Rosa has been committed to meeting with manufacturers of materials in Australia so to develop a portfolio of eco-friendly materials that can be integrated into future commissions and site-specific art projects.
A highly committed and resourceful artist in her art production as well as meeting timelines and architectural, structural and building guidelines. Whilst she demonstrates with ongoing independent exhibition program, she gives any new project the same dedication."
(See images ‘El Pañuelo’ & Wyndham Public Art Commission.)'
David Fitzsimmons
(previously at Wyndham City & Axia Modern Art)
Creative Urban Places Program Lead I Arts Melbourne
City of Melbourne
Artworks Title: El Pañuelo Crown Casino Melbourne
in-consultation with Chinese Community of Melbourne
Photo: Joe Vittorio
Birds & water
Artistic outcomes
Awards. Residencies. Commissions.
Rosa completed a 12 month Artist in residence (AIR) at
Park Victoria's Coolart Wetlands.
She exhibited works inside the Homestead and in the Minsmere Birdhide & Crake Birdhide in both May & November 2018.
The residency culminated in a day where the public were encouraged to discover the artwork in and around the Coolart Homestead and Wetlands property.
The Maggie and Bird series were created in these surrounds and editions of these works are for sale. Rosa is currently creating a series of wall hangings and experimenting with range of materials such as carpet, velvet, and silk.
Collaborations in relation to the bird series to develop a range of textiles welcome.
Photo: Stan Fridlind
Julie Ebbott
President, Friends of Coolart
'Through a process of consultation, immersion and the gathering of local stories Rosa Mar Tato Ortega produces an artistic interpretation of the site. Her artistic approach is organic and unique, professional, whilst following processes and organisational guidelines. She invites the viewer to individually experience the work from a different perspective. It can be enlightening.'
Awards. Residencies. Commissions.
Awards. Residencies. Commissions.
Awards. Residencies. Commissions.
She has been the recipient of several Artist-in-Residence grants; a research grant in Shanghai through RMIT School of Art and ECNU Shanghai, a funded residency in various locations around Menzies Shire in remote Western Australia, including a month long artist in residence at NGV Studio in 2012 with 10 other women culminating in an exhibition for International Womens Day.
Rosa was also the recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts’ ArtStart Grant & George Alexander Foundation Scholarship
Photo:
NGV Studio Residency
Curated by Deborah Ratcliffe & Rowena Martinich
2003 - 2020
Awards. Residencies. Commissions.
2003 - 2020
Rosa has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has received important public, private and site-specific commissions in her home state of Victoria, Australia.
She was commissioned by BateSmart Architects to create a permanent public artwork at the entrance of the VIP Teak Room at Melbourne's Crown Casino.
Photo:
EXQUISITE
International Digital Print Exhibition
New York Hall of Science
New York City USA
About Rosa
Awards. Residencies. Commissions.
2003 - 2020
Rosa Mar has a post graduate degree in Fine Arts and is a creative collaborator and practicing artist living in Somers on the Mornington Peninsula.
Her role often involves being a conduit between artist and institution/organisation; facilitating logistics, media and frameworks in support of artists and their work. Rosa is an experienced PA, handling those important lists that are often unachievable to tick off, for local and international artists. This often includes media, meeting of VIP’s and co-ordinating travel.
Her most recent media campaigns include Peninsula Chamber Musicians and The Buckley Opera.
Rosa also works as a Media Facilitator, facilitating various clients in the realms of Performing Arts, Law, Gender Identity, as well as providing a VIP Liaison service given her qualifications as a NAATI interpreter.
MAGPIE SERIES
Limited Edition
Created during a 12 month Artist in Residence, as seen in The World Of Interiors, in response to the unprecedented devastation caused by the ongoing bushfires, any sales of ‘My Maggie’ edition will benefit the Bush Fire relief. 50% sales will be donated to www.firesticks.org.au
Voile. Mixed Media.
These works vary in their width & can be mounted unframed with a magnet system.
Drawing & Stitching
Her process is multilayered: the final work reprinted on voile and subtle hand stitched threads flow from the work.
Collage, cutting, drawing, stitching, sewing, reprinting, stitching some more, reprinting..
'The needle is my coloring in texta.. there is rhythm..to capture my Maggie's beauty.'
BUSH FIRE RELIEF EVENING
BUSH FIRE RELIEF EVENING JANUARY 18 2020
Art donation to the Somers Community Bushfire Relief Evening.
100% of the final Silent Auction bid will be donated to the Red Cross Bush Fire Relief Fund.
Title: Walking on the Sand
Medium: Mixed Media
2018