Artist in Residence Vasiliki Stasinaki
You might spot around The Crescent some artwork popping up on windows and walls about the building. Meet Vasiliki Stasinaki, Artist in Residence at The Crescent.
We asked Vasiliki to share a little more about the Residency:
"My idea for the residency was about how myself, as an artist that works across disciplines, can spend creative time within a building/organisation/body, such as The Crescent, that offers spaces and opportunities across disciplines and ages. I wanted the residency to be unpressurised by the idea of an end result, but rather focus on experimentation and the element of surprise and chance. Instead of pre-planning and designing every aspect of my engagement with the building, the space, the people, I decided to lead this residency following my instinct and my needs for every day that would be spent in The Crescent.
My very first full week in, I decided to engage with the brick/stone work of the building, which is a very strong feature of its architecture. I thought about how the structure of the bricks holds everything together, over the years, holding both physically and metaphorically. I decided to use the technique of monoprinting. After I repeatedly traced lots of different textures from the stonework of the building, I translated these textures into unique monoprints, and that is what you see dispersed around the building. This kind of monoprints will keep popping up around the building for the coming weeks. I am also considering the element of surprise and spontaneity, by allowing the prints appear in a random and playful way around the building."
We can't wait to watch this journey evolve.
Vasiliki Stasinaki's project is funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Support for Individual Artist Programme and supported by The Crescent Arts Centre.
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