 Flore GARDNER 84000 Avignon France flore.gardner@free.fr |
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| RESEARCH |
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| Reflecting my own nomadism between two countries and two languages, two ways of seeing and thinking, I explore “In-between-ness” as a link between thought and artistic practice. My research consists in the investigation of different forms of in-between-ness (Nonsense, paradox and infra-thin, Melancholy). I use contradictory/complementary art forms (sculpture-action, drawing-writing, photography-sewing…) where the line (be it 2D or 3D) becomes primordial as both a separating and a connecting element. My current research, entitled “Drawing=Thinking”, considers drawing as an in-between form, between idea and execution, it is at once a fundamental and peripheral practice and a language of its own. | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2003-07 |
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Doctorat (PhD)
Fine Art : ”Simultaneously Artistic Performance and Everyday
Acts… Nonsense” with First Class Honours (mention Très
Honorable avec Félicitations) Supervisor: Nathalie REYMOND Jury: George BLOESS (Université Paris VIII Vincennes Saint Denis), Gisèle GRAMMARE (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Lydie PEARL (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III) |
| 2002-03 |
Villa Arson, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nice
: entry in third year Artistic project: “Alice’s Tea-Party” Course « Fictions around Annlee », with François Curlet : project “Literal Translation” |
| 2000-01 | Université
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris DEA (Master) Fine Art: “Infra-action in the Everyday – Nonsense” (1st) |
| 1996-00 |
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier and Université
de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens DEUG, Licence et Maîtrise (MA) Fine Art: “Clothing as Sculpture”(1st) |
| 1993-95 | Edinburgh University, Modern Languages, French and Russian (B) |
| 1992-93 | Dingwall Academy, Scotland, 7 Higher Grades (all with A pass) |
| FUTURE EXHIBITIONS | |
| Oct 08 | Exhibiton Space HMS, Harrington Mill Studios, Long Eaton, Nottingham "Embroideries":
Series of sewn photographs, |
| Mar 09 | Group exhibition « Contemporary Flanerie : Reconfiguring Cities » curated by Vagner Whitehead, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester (MI) Etats-Unis |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| Nov 07 | ”Simultaneously
Artistic Performance and Everyday Acts… Nonsense” for
my viva voce, Centre Saint |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2007 |
"Eloge
des différences", Galerie CROUS, Paris. Performance
with the Back-to-Front Dress. |
| 2006 |
"Déplacements", Galerie du CROUS, Paris. Performance The Big Knit. |
| 2005 | "Points de vue, points de contact", Galerie du CROUS, Paris. Performance with the Little Black Dress for Small Talk. |
| "Visages", Maison de la Tunisie, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris | |
| Invitation to create and cook a menu on the theme of the foot for the artistic project "Podoscopie ". (Mathieu Verdieu), at the restaurant La Vie Devant Soi in Marseilles. | |
| 2004 | "Passage(s)", Sichuan Fine Art Institute Chongqing, Chine and Salle Michel Journiac, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 1999 | "Amiens-Weimar, Aller-Retour ", Bauhaus, Weimar, Allemagne and Faculté d’art, Amiens |
| CATALOGUES | |
| 2007 | "La
différence, même "in exhibition catalogue Eloge
des différences, CERAP/CROUS/Université Paris 1, 2007, p.71-78 |
2006 |
"Déplacer
les limites du quotidien", in exhibition catalogue Déplacements,
CERAP/CROUS/Université Paris 1, 2006, p.97-104 |
| 2005 | "Points
de vue, points de contact", CERAP/CROUS/Université Paris
1, 2005, p.45-50 |
| 2004 | "Passage(s) : change ; time ; in-between", in exhibition catalogue Passage(s), Université Paris 1/CERAP/Sichuan Fine Art Institute, |
| 1999 | Exhibition catalogue Amiens-Weimar, Aller-Retour, Ed. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
| PROJECTS | |
| 2003–05 | Artistic
project: restaurant/artist-run-space "Les 19... ", Marseilles.
At once a business and an artistic project which I ran for two years in Marseille, serving thematic menus and organising small exhibitions and other events (performances, musical gigs). |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 2004 | International Bilingual School, Aix: English language and literature teacher at secondary school level |
| 2003 | Institution
Sainte Trinité, Marseille: English language and literature
teacher at secondary school level |
| 2001-03 | Amiens, freelance: French-English and English-French translator, for the television and cinema |
| 1999-03 | Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain de Picardie (art institute specialised in drawing in contemporary art), Amiens, FranceResearch concerning the artists in the collection (biographies, bibliographies, analysis); organisation and installation of exhibitions and production of accompanying documentation (educational tools, articles for catalogues, exhibition handouts; public and school/university group visits. |
| 1999-00 | School of Art, Université Jules Verne, Amiens : tutor to a group of undergraduate Fine Art students - theory (analysis of art work, art history, aesthetics) and practical workshop (photography – shooting, developing and printing in black and white). |
| TECHNIQUES & SKILLS | |
| Sculpture,
drawing, photography, performance, eat-art, knitting, sewing. IT skills: word processing, database, CAD, Internet. Languages: Bilingual French-English |
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