CLEARWAY (Corona)
ROX DE LUCA: Still gleaning for plastic, on the beach
‘On Bondi Beach, my local beach for a time it seemed that beachgoers couldn’t maintain the new normal of ‘social distancing’. So the Council closed the beach. It is open now.
Given that closure of Bondi Beach, I went for solo walks to Rose Bay Beach where I could discreetly continue to glean for plastic on the beach. That is my everyday work practice.
At times I combine coastal plastics I find in my daily walks with pristine single-use industrial plastics I source from other places. Sometimes I use these bits on their own. The initial gathering and sorting process of my work is slow.
Combining the plastic bits is intuitive and playful.
This is usually followed by a threading of the plastic components onto strings of wire. The resulting sculptural garlands and mounds I make are reflections of my coastal home and its relation to the greater human landscape of waste and consumption.’
Rox De Luca is a visual artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her current work, made from plastic remnants gleaned from local beaches and other sources, draws attention to the serious global issue of waste that our species generates. De Luca exhibits regularly in solo and group exhibitions, and has been a finalist in the Fishers Ghost, Ravenswood Woman’s Art Prize and Deakin Small Sculpture Prizes. She has completed projects with Sculpture by the Sea, was recently awarded a Fremantle Art Centre Residency and this year will work on a range of collaborative projects. www.roxdeluca.com . Rox De Luca’s exhibition open at Articulate from Friday 14 – Sunday 30 August.
ELIZABETH JIGALIN: CLEARWAY Composer
Elizabeth Jigalin is writing music for roaming flutes , cello and piano, as interludes and an infusion around the stories. She is working with flautists Jessica Scott, Naomi Johnson, Lamorna Nightingale. You’ll often find Elizabeth composing for a range of musicians and instrumental forces (from music for a field of theremins…to string trios…to red objects), performing and composing new soundtracks for silent films on the piano (frequently in collaboration with violinist Jane Aubourg) as part of Australia’s Silent Film Festival and making music outside the usual order of things with the music box project (curious collective she directs). Her work has been performed at Unbound Flute Festival, Extended Play Festival and Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music. She is grateful to have worked with a variety of artists including Soundstream, Ensemble Offspring, Kaldor Public Arts Projects, Sydney Youth Orchestras, stereo/mono, COMA New Music Ensemble and Vox Novus. www.elizabethjigalin.net
CLARE HAWLEY: Filmmaker
Clare Hawley is a performance photographer based in Sydney. Clare has been working with a variety of creatives and performance based artists for the past decade, shooting live events, rehearsals, promotional and behind-the-scenes images. Alongside theatrical work, she has been working with filmmakers, capturing stills on set and poster images for short and feature-length films. The future for Clare involves more work filming performance and diversifying the services she can offer to this industry.
SOPHIE PARKER: Lighting design
Sophie Parker is a freelancer in stage lighting for theatre and opera. She works across roles including designer, head electrician, programmer (Eos), and skilled technician. She also designs & constructs custom electronics for theatrical applications, including wireless pixel control, Eos programming peripherals, and personal projects. She has a thorough education in classical music as a singer and instrumentalist.
Sophie Parker made her lighting design debut with Psyche (2019) at the Conservatorium of Music, and has worked as head electrician/programmer on their productions of La Finta Giardiniera (2019), Don Giovanni (2018), and Les Mamelles de Tirésias (2018). She was head electrician on SKATE! by BIG hART (2019) where she developed a custom wireless prop lighting system. Sophie has worked at the Sydney Opera House as a lighting technician on various productions since 2018 including the 2019 Opera Australia summer season. She has also worked in planning for Sydney New Year’s Eve 2017 & 2018. Sophie graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) (DLPTS) in 2016.
