Jeanne Hoffman: May 2009

This piece (like most of the other experiments I made during the residency at Saari Mansion) is loosely based on references to the Finnish creation epic, the Kalevala. In canto 50 Marjatta falls pregnant after eating a lingonberry (marja is Finnish for berry).

Drawing near: inscribing spaces

My work starts out as drawings then unravel the scribbles of their beginnings into three-dimensional objects - a process through which drawing becomes a metaphoric, spatial and plastic journey. I extend this expanded view of drawing, spatially, through materials.

Travelling and working in different locations, my approach and process alternate between two poles: nest-builder and nomad. In my work I build temporary shelters for thoughts - wandering from one place to another, collecting observations, experiences and meaning. I tend to understand this notion of travel as a gesture that enables one to re-view one's position emotionally, socially and politically within a particular geographical locality. In this sense drawing can be used as a tool which allows the mind to wander along the more distant paths of memory and imagination to return with a more acute awareness of the present.

2008

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Solo exhibition: Strange things travel with you

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Complete MA in Visual Arts: Drawing near: Inscribing urban spaces

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A second project with Raumars AIR, Finland. The workshops with 70 learners from Rauman Lukio and Lyseo culminted in an exhibition, Kollaasikaupunki/Collage City at Galleria Gylich. The postcards produced as part of this collaboration were distributed commercially as the summer series of postcards for Rauma city.

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Residency at Frans Masereel Centre (Belgium)

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Drawing lecturer, Stellenbosch University Visual Arts department (South Africa)

2007

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Drawing lecturer University of Stellenbosch Visual Arts

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Frans Masereel Centre AIR - colour lithography

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Impact 5 international printmaking conference in Tallin, Estonia.

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African Tahti: Urban intervention in collaboration with Liza Grobler in Finland.The collaboration formed part of a group exhibition "Common Ground: Raumars 10 years" at the Lonnstrom Art Museum in Rauma.

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Raumars AIR
My residency in Rauma was dominated by workshops with school groups. These workshops explored relationships between drawing, communication and psychogeograpies. The drawing communication projects culminated in an exhibition of my collaboration with the Finnish students at Galleria Gylich in May 2008.

Jeanne Hoffman

2009/05/05

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