In this episode, Steph catches up with artist Chris De Rosa in her home studio in Port Elliot. They chat about how she found her way to art-making, the versatility of paper as a material, her recent exhibition Seaweeding, and how living on the coast informs her practice.

Show Notes

• Transcript of this interview [PDF]


• Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec – French painter, printmaker, illustrator


• JamFactory


• Paper Mache / Papier Mache


• flora (noun): the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.


• Seaweeding exhibition [art almanac] [inDaily]


• beachcombing (noun): an activity that consists of an individual “combing” (or searching) the beach and the intertidal zone, looking for things of value, interest, or utility.


• Museum of Economic Botany


• Jessie Hussey


• Spongia: a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae containing more than 60 species.


• Porifera: the phylum that sponges belong to.


• Taxonomic rank (phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)


• The Drowned World, JG Ballard, 1962


• Sea Tulip


• bust (noun): a sculpture of a person’s head, shoulders, and chest.


• Honor Freeman: artist, performer


• Mickey Mason: artist & filmmaker


• Susi Benger: eco-conscious swimwear designer @CocoAndShy


• Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot


• Super 8: type of film camera


• Giuseppe Faraone: sound designer


• Cath Kenneally: writer, poet.


• Rosina Possingham: artist, graphic designer
  
  Guildhouse Catapult mentorship program


• Trent Walter & Stuart Geddes [artguide interview]


• Good Bank Gallery, McLaren Vale


• Valerie Taylor: artist, filmmaker, marine conservationist


• ‘Water People’ exhibition (28 May - 31 July 2023) at Coral St Art Space, Victor Harbor


• Flinders University Museum of Art


• @Chris_DeRosa on Instagram

Music: Monplaisir - The Rise The Walk The Hope via FMA.