Approved: 02.10.2012

Tracey McMaster

Artist, Community worker, Film-maker

Approved: 02.10.2012

I live in a coastal town in Wales and feel rooted to my environment, the sea, and its stories. I use materials from the sea to help me create my paintings. I make paint from the broken shells of the shoreline. I use this paint and oil paint to produce small and medium scale work in response to themes of women and their relationship to the sea, fertility and belonging. The paintings explore depictions of women as ferocious, strong, magical, salty beings. Through this process, I reflect upon my relationship to the place I live in, accompanied by a longing to know how others might contribute to these ideas.

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Artist Statement

I live in a coastal town in Wales and feel rooted to my environment, the sea, and its stories. I use materials from the sea to help me create my paintings. I make paint from the broken shells of the shoreline. I use this paint and oil paint to produce small and medium scale work in response to themes of women and their relationship to the sea, fertility and belonging. The paintings explore depictions of women as ferocious, strong, magical, salty beings. Through this process, I reflect upon my relationship to the place I live in, accompanied by a longing to know how others might contribute to these ideas.

We, like sea pebbles, are shaped by our environments. I also make moving image works where I connect with individuals in the community as I want to investigate the dynamic relationship between people and place. I advertise in local papers looking for participants who have traditional interests that I find intriguing. The moving image works are around ten minutes in duration and are made through interviews with the contributor in their environment. The people I work with are informed, eccentric or extraordinary in their own way, for example, horologists in their studio surrounded by clocks, psychics holding a seance in an art gallery basement, a pigeon fancier waiting for their pigeons to fly home to roost.


 

Datganiad Artist

Dwi’n byw mewn tref arfordirol yng Nghymru a dwi’n teimlo wedi fy ngwreiddio yn fy amgylchedd, y môr, a’i straeon. Dwi’n defnyddio deunyddiau o’r môr i helpu i greu fymhaentiadau. Dwi’n gwneud paent allan o gregyn toredig y draethlin. Dwi wedyn yn    defnyddio’r paent a’r paent olew hwn i gynhyrchu gweithiau maint bach a chanolig mewn ymateb i themâu fel menywod a’u perthynas â’r môr, ffrwythlondeb ac ymberthyn. Mae’r peintiadau yn archwilio portreadau o fenywod fel bodau ffyrnig, cryf, hudol, hallt. Drwy’r broses hon, dwi’n myfyrio ar fy mherthynas â’r lle rwy’n byw ynddo, ynghyd â dyhead i wybod sut gallai eraill gyfrannu at y syniadau hyn.

Rydym ni, fel cerrig mân y môr, yn cael ein mowldio gan ein hamgylchedd. Dwi hefyd yn gwneud gweithiau delweddau symudol lle dwi’n cysylltu gydag unigolion yn y gymuned gan fy mod i’n awyddus i ymchwilio i’r berthynas ddeinamig rhwng pobl a lleoedd. Dwi’n hysbysebu mewn papurau lleol yn chwilio am gyfranogwyr sydd â diddordebau traddodiadol dwi’n ffeindio’n ddiddorol. Mae’r gweithiau delweddau symudol tua deng munud o hyd ac yn cynnwys cyfweliadau gyda’r cyfrannwr yn eu hamgylchedd. Mae’r bobl dwi’n gweithio â nhw yn wybodus, ecsentrig neu’n neilltuol yn eu ffyrdd eu hunain, er enghraifft, clocwyr yn eu stiwdios wedi’u hamgylchynu gan glociau, seicigs yn cynnal ‘seance’ mewn seler oriel gelf, a bridwyr colomennod yn aros i’w colomennod hedfan adref i glwydo.

 

CV & Education

Group exhibitions

2020 Ty Pawb Open, Ty Pawb; 2016 Mass Production pt. 2, Malt Cross Gallery Nottingham 2014 - The House of the Flying Wheel, Backlit, Nottingham 2013 - Rufford Gallery Prize - Nottingham Castle Annual Open 2012 Prize Winner, Rufford Gallery, Rufford 2012 - Backlit Future Shorts Programme, Backlit, Nottingham 2012 - Electric Open, Electric Picture House, Cheshire 2012 - Guest Artist - Southwell Artists Open Studios, Southwell Artists, Southwell 2012 - Nottingham Castle Annual Open 2012, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham 2012 - RE-CORD, Glue Factory, Glasgow Residencies 2012 - Palast de Produktion residency and exhibition called 18:50, Palast de Produktion, Bremen Blumenthal

 

Awards                                                                                                                        

2023 - Awarded Creative Steps funding from Arts Council Wales 

2022 - Zabludowicz Masterclass Fellowship                                                                                     2015 - Awarded the CQ technology grant                                                                                            2012 - Awarded 'Rufford Gallery Prize' from Nottingham Castle Annual Open                                   2010 - UJADF Finalist                                                                                                                          2007 - Musashino Art University Scholarship 

Residencies    

2014 - The Clipperton Project 

2012 - Palace De Production, Bremen, Germany

 

Art Education

2010 Post Graduate Certificate in Arts Practice, University of Derby

2008 BA Fine Art (Hons), Nottingham Trent University

2005 Diploma in Art, University of Hertfordshire