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Sabine Reindel

admin Open Residencies, Resident Artist 23 February 2017Germany, landscapes, Visual artist

Sabine painting at the New York Met Museum

Sabine Reindel is a German-born fine art painter, whose work concentrates on cityscapes. During her six-weeks residency at Rimbun Dahan she will continue her series of cityscapes she has started to create while she was practicing law as an attorney in the United Arab Emirates. Thereafter she continued working on cityscapes in San Francisco where she earned her master of fine art at the Academy of Art University, in New York where she studied at the New York Academy and the Artist Students League of New York, and in artist residencies in Thailand, Singapore and France.

My art is about journeys, exploring new places and making them my own. My work concentrates on cityscapes of the United Arab Emirates, where I practiced law for the last eighteen years, San Francisco, where I received my education in art, New York, where I took classes at the New York Academy of Art and the Arts Students League of New York, Thailand, Singapore and France where I had artist residencies over the last two years.

My first calling has not been art. I went to law school in Germany and then worked as an attorney in the Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Over the last two decades I moved a lot and I lived in thriving places that changed and still change a lot. With my paintings I try to explore the similarities of these places, but mostly concentrate on the differences. Each place has its unique architecture, which reflects its own unique location on the globe, its special light, its one of a kind flora and fauna. Seeing what make each place so unique makes painting for me so exciting.

New York Apartment with a view copy by Sabine Reindel — New York Apartment with a view

Dubai Marina by Sabine Reindel — Dubai Marina

Peyriac de Mer by Sabine Reindel — Peyriac de Mer

Singapore Mariamman Temple by Sabine Reindel — Singapore Mariamman Temple

Veronika Neukirch

admin Open Residencies, Resident Artist 31 January 20171 February 2017assemblage, Collage, Germany, installation, object art, sculpture, Visual artist

Sterile Jungle; 2014; 61 x 254 x 61cm; Digital collage on synthetic paper, astro turf, plant, artificial plant, 2 sticker hooks, 2 insect repellent coils

Veronika Neukirch is a German artist born in 1986 in Duesseldorf. She completed her Art & Design Foundation in 2010 and graduated with a BA (Honours) Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2013. She has been based in Kuala Lumpur since 2014 and has been exhibiting across Malaysia as well as abroad.

As an object-based artist concerned with developing new roles for pre-designed objects, Veronika creates compositions that strive to represent and utilise the pluralistic nature of contemporary art and contemporary life. The combining and finding of a new balance between various selected and handmade components run through her entire practice, consisting predominantly of sculpture, assemblage, collage, installation. The tension between artificial, functional, and ready-made elements and the organic shapes of intuitive material experimentation offers wide haptic diversity.

The rich local flora and fauna will be the starting point of her collaborative residency with local artist Haffendi Anuar. Veronika will be in residency at Rimbun Dahan for four months starting in February.

Hapto Tablets 1.0; 5/Series of 5, 2016; 34 x 21.5 x 9cm; Wood, cement, self-adhesive shelf liner, dyed grout, latex glue, crochet thread, hooks

Hapto Tablets 1.0; 4/Series of 5, 2016; 34 x 21 x 5.5cm; Wood, shelf liner, dyed grout, hooks, glue, thread

Moosi Kampung; 2016'; 50 x 85 x 60cm; Glass container, clay, spraypaint, aquarium plant, gardener’s foam — Moosi Kampung; 2016′; 50 x 85 x 60cm; Glass container, clay, spraypaint, aquarium plant, gardener’s foam

Granny Smith's Table; 2015; 90 x 130 x 90cm; Wood, glass plate, fruit basket, spray paints, 4 artificial apples, Granny Smith's stickers — Granny Smith’s Table; 2015; 90 x 130 x 90cm; Wood, glass plate, fruit basket, spray paints, 4 artificial apples, Granny Smith’s stickers

Apples & Pineapples; 2015; 90 x 223 x 8.5; Printed fabric, acrylic paint, artificial apples, permanent marker

Sterile Jungle (2014) – published in Make8elieve #8, Horror Plants, USA/Switzerland

Granny Smith’s Table (2015) and Apples & Pineapples (2015) – exhibited at:

2015: ‘RIPEN AT HOME’ (solo), Minut Init, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
2016: ‘Extending Ideas’ (group show kindly supported by Goethe Institute Malaysia), Feeka, Kuala Lumpur & Museum Negeri Pulau Pinang, USM, Penang, Malaysia

Laura Wills

admin Open Residencies, Resident Artist 19 January 20171 June 2017Australia, maps, Visual artist

Laura Wills is an Adelaide based visual artist. She has a multidisciplinary practice and a strong interest in using found materials, collaboration and basing projects on social/ environmental themes. She is represented by Hill Smith Gallery Adelaide. She will be in residency at Rimbun Dahan for 5 weeks until mid-February.

At Rimbun Dahan I will be developing a new series of works on maps. My research will be drawing and painting based and also involve exploring the local environment to inform the development of new works, particularly the Taman Sari, vegetable and spice garden. I am interested in the social relationship and connection people have to it. I would like to continue in this line of thinking about intimate relationships, memories and habits we have towards culinary plants and nature.

Local Rocks, 2016, Pastel and digital print on archival paper, Unique print special edition of 5, 57x87 cm — Local Rocks, 2016, Pastel and digital print on archival paper, Unique print special edition of 5, 57×87 cm

Warmth, 2012, Pastel on paper, 110x83 cm — Warmth, 2012, Pastel on paper, 110×83 cm

For more information on Laura’s work, visit her website, Instagram, or Hill Smith Gallery’s website.

Laura’s residency was supported by a professional development grant from the South Australian Government through Arts SA.

Zulkifli Lee

admin Resident Artist, Yearlong Visual Arts Residency 19 January 2017corrosion, Malaysia, Visual artist

Zulkifli Lee’s creative practice explores the relationship of personalised and impersonalised forms as well as the language of materials. His motifs usually involve very systematic and rhythmic geometric patterns, but rather than striving for total control, he embraces change and chances. Playing with the phenomenological aspect of his materials’ natural properties and using various substances, chemical treatments and exposure to natural forces, he submits part of the image making to the law of nature, to the disposition of art elements outside his personal control. The marks created by chance, deforms or transforms the images created by the artist and vice versa. Zulkifli is invested in creating works that juxtapose the beauty of the relationship and paradox between humans and nature.

Improvisation of Chances Repeating Scars, 2016, iron oxide on canvas, 240 x 137cm

Regular, Irregular, 2016, 96 x 153 cm (diptych)

Shapeshifter, 2015, corrosion patina on canvas, 153 x 153 cm

With the residency at Rimbun Dahan, he wishes to focus on experimenting with new processes and materials apart from his trademark iron oxide or corrosion medium. He is keen to introduce more natural media and experiment with new chemical processes for his new series of work and find new ways to play with chances. He is interested to explore natural mediums such as mineral pigments, fungus, heat marks, etc. To work and experiment with these new methods is to further his interest in working directly with the forces of nature. With this experiment he hopes to innovate new potential methods to his creative process and discover new artistic value.

Tales of Lines, 2015, corrosion patina on canvas and steel, 153 x 153cm

Tentang, 2015, corrosion patina on canvas and steel, 153 x 76.2cm (diptych)

Zulkifli Lee was born in Raub, Pahang & currently works and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He completed his M.A. in Fine Art & Technology at Universiti Teknologi MARA in 2013 and received the Master Excellent Award. Prior to that he graduated from the same university with a B.A in fine art, majoring in sculpture. A versatile visual artist, he also endeavours as a graphic designer, concept artist and illustrator. Zul Lee’s work can be found online at his website. He is Rimbun Dahan’s Yearlong Resident Artist for 2017, and will be exhibiting his works in our gallery in November 2017.

Nina Rupena

Angela Hijjas Hotel Penaga, Resident Artist 23 February 201529 January 2018Australia, Painter, Visual artist

Nina Rupena is a Bosnian born project-based artist currently located in Melbourne. She works across mediums and practices using both visual art and design as tools for communicating ideas. Painting and drawing are her passion and she has a great interest in collaborative work. Since 2008, Nina worked on numerous collaborative projects with artists, designers, filmmakers, organisations and communities.

We wrap ourselves in cotton wool and try to iron, bleach and polish our emotions. We constantly try to predict the future and ignore the uncertain and fleeting nature of our existence. But isn’t the intensity of human experience what makes that very existence beautiful? Pain is intrinsic to the human experience. Without it something of our humanity, dignity and beauty of human life is trivialized. Life without experiencing pain breeds complacency, ignorance and passivity. Beauty is all around us I look for it in human experiences such as disability, old age, displacement and tragedy.

Nina is currently in residency at Hotel Penaga in Penang from February to April 2015. While in Penang, she started a project FACE IT:

“What do you wish you had known when you were younger? For the duration of my art residency I posed this question to the guests and staff at Hotel Penaga, trishaw drivers, backpackers, food vendors, people I met on the streets and bars. Then I drew their portraits, often on the spot or later from a photo. FACE IT is an ongoing project. The aim is to create a meaningful interaction and a space where people let their guards down and show their vulnerabilities.

Portraits and answers are uploaded daily at http://ninarupena.com.au/faceit/ or follow on Facebook and Instagram. You can find out more about her and her work at her website.

Anthony and Kaylene, Graphite, synthetic polymer paint, oil paint, sealer, Arches paper, 193x114cm, 2013

Sarajevo Rose, Ink and oil on canvas, 112×122 cm, 2012

Vestige, Ink, colour pencil and watercolour on old doily mounted on canvas-backed wallpaper, 46x51cm, 2011

Jennifer Tyers

admin Open Residencies, Resident Artist 28 January 201528 January 2015Australian, Garden, Painter, Trees, Visual artist

Jennifer Tyers has been a resident artist at Rimbun Dahan for three months. She works with watercolour and paints landscapes. Sometimes she works in printmaking and book making. She has been based in Asia for several years, working on landscapes at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and was also an artist in resident at AIRY in Kofu, Japan, in 2014. She has an exhibition at Cast Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania in May.

At Rimbun Dahan Jennifer is painting the grounds with particular interest in the various plants and trees on Rimbun Dahan.

Joanna Gambotto

admin Hotel Penaga, Resident Artist 23 January 201523 April 2015Australia, Painter, Visual artist

Joanna Gambotto, of Sydney, Australia, was in residence at Hotel Penaga in George Town, Penang, from November 2014 to January 2015, and was inspired by all the colours and textures of Georgetown. She gave an informal showing of Oriented, her new body of work, on 30 January 2015 at Hotel Penaga.

The Artists’ Residency at Hotel Penaga is administered by Rimbun Dahan.

Carlo Gernale

admin Resident Artist, Southeast Asian Arts Residency 20 August 20138 January 2015Contemporary, Painter, Philippines, Visual artist

Visual Arts Resident, 2013

Artist’s statement:

Carlo “Caloy” Gernale (b. 1979) is a Filipino visual artist based in Southern Tagalog, Philippines. As a contemporary social-realist artist, he attempts to articulate not only his personal views, but more importantly, the collective stand and the national democratic aspiration of the marginalized.

As an artist, Gernale is driven by the past and present events that mould Philippine history; he also has a penchant for indigenous and contemporary myths, fables, and banter, and tries to incorporate them into his works of art. Guided by his socio-political leaning, he attempts to come up with a cohesive body of works that are visually and semiotically potent.

Gernale studied Bachelor of Fine Arts in Philippine Women’s University. In 2006, he mounted his first solo exhibit “Ispup.” His most recent exhibit titled “Allegories and Allergies” was held in May 2013 at West Gallery, Philippines.

Barbara Wildenboer

admin Hotel Penaga, Resident Artist 1 June 201329 January 2018South Africa, Visual artist

Barbara Wildenboer was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1973. She completed a BA (Ed) with majors in English literature, Psychology and Pedagogics at the University of Pretoria in 1996. In 2003 she obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts from UNISA followed by a Masters in Fine Art (with distinction) from the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town in 2007.

Wildenboer has been awarded several international residencies such as the Unesco-Aschberg residency (Jordan, 2006), the Al Mahatta residency (Palestine, 2009) and the Red De Residencias Artisticas Local (Colombia, 2011) and the Hotel Penaga artist residency (Penang, Malaysia, 2013). In 2011 she was nominated and subsequently selected as one of the top 20 finalists for the Sovereign African Arts Award for which she received the Public Choice Prize.

To find out more about her work, visit her website.

Creation Myths, 2013, paper construction

Fate (detail), 2013, photographic print on Hahnemuhle, pins and thread

Fate, 2013, photographic print on Hahnemuhle, pins and thread

Sangeeta Sandrasegar

admin Hotel Penaga, Resident Artist 1 October 201229 January 2018Australia, Visual artist

Sangeeta Sandrasegar works within a research-based practice, building narratives in which every new work connects to previous projects. Her practice consolidates postcolonial and hybridity theory, exploring her context within Australia and its relationship to migrant communities and homelands. Her work concerns itself within the overlap of cultural structures – sexuality, race and identity, in contemporary society – and interpreting and representing these shifts. These themes are explored through a visual language concerned with shadows. From installations of paper cutouts, material works and/or sculpture, the constructed shadows of the installation become a motif for themes of self-hood, otherness and in-between spaces. By extending the scope of the art object the cast shadows simultaneously engage with the history of the shadow in Art, and hint towards cognitive alternatives and sites of transformation.

In 2004 Sandrasegar completed a Doctorate of Philosophy across the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. The content of the exegesis was to formalize a visual practice centred on the creative space of shadows into a theoretical tool. She proposed that the shadow subject could be re-examined and liberated from its historical representations and to be employed as both a positive and salient visual device for representing the ideas being examined in post-colonial and hybridity studies.

Sandrasegar has been represented in group and solo exhibitions since 1996, and is the recipient of several fellowships and prizes. In particular, national showcases for emerging artists: Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NEW04, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne. As well as the Auckland Triennial and SCAPE: New Zealand Community Art & Industry Biennial in New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 05, Gallery of Modern Art Queensland. Last year her work was shown in the Incheon Women Artists Biennale in Korea, and Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York.

Sangeeta was in residency at Hotel Penaga from October to December 2012.

Links to Sangeeta’s work
http://sangeetasandrasegar.photoshelter.com/
http://sangeetasandrasegar.blogspot.com