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BELONGING: About Flossie

Flossie Peitsch located in Melbourne,  PhD, MFA, BFA (HONS) an acclaimed, internationally exhibiting installation, multimedia, performance, and interdisciplinary art with interests in social sculpture, generating creative communities through the arts and contemporary spirituality facilitating the self-realization of being in Australia. ‘Splace’ is her invented term, engaging the voice of art for the self-realization of being. Her community art projects found throughout the world are noted for their expansion of the definition of Fine Art. An immigrant of long standing – from Canada to Australia as a young adult – she is grounded in the everyday by 164 concurrent years of mothering her six children.

Purchase Book at Reception ART AND SOUL ? flossie.peitsch@gmail.com              Mob 0457 726 257

 

 

BELONGING: The Bundanon Residency Collaboration 2012

The two of us met while in Residency at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, in the winter of 2009, and established a connection and an interest in each other’s work. In 2012, we delightedly embarked on a joint project at the Bundanon Trust, NSW. Through walks and meditation we drew inspiration and raw material from Bundanon itself as ‘place’, incorporating the idea of mindfulness and ‘country’ in the Australian Aboriginal sense. Daily, we would listen to image and see sound as essential exchange and reflection vital to each stage of our working process. In addition to combining images/installation art and music, we identified that we both come from a churched background and brought a willingness to probe this key common base.

 

BELONGING: Exhibition Statement

Exhibition Statement: Respecting the strong ‘sense of belonging to a place’ related by native peoples around the world, Peitsch (Canadian) and Green (Australian) keenly researched their own belonging. Though neither of them are indigenous to their respective countries, they feel an ongoing connection to each other’s adopted country.  Via their combined art practices they delve deeply into the land and spirituality they love.

Canada and Australia joined by culture and sentiment

 

BELONGING: Exhibition Description

Exhibition Description: A Bundanon Residency Collaboration of belonging to place comprising an expanded series of wall mounted linoleum panels, fabricated and fabric sculpture, and canvases by visual artist Flossie Peitsch and an ensuing series of sophisticated and developed original audio interpretations / soundscapes by composer / performer Christina Green. The inaugural showing of the seminal art/audio movie combining images of this Bundanon Residency and relating to its creative output, features highly.

Celebratory Toast during Bundanon Trust Residency
Celebratory Toast during Bundanon Trust Residency

BELONGING: Longing for…

Formative discussions….BELONGING: Longing for Place, Longing for Kinship, Longing for Affinity, Longing for Acceptance, Longing for Relationship, Longing to Belong.

Boyd’s familiar river images – painted at Bundanon when he lived there

Boyd’s familiar river images – painted at Bundanon when he lived there cont’d

BELONGING (detail) Cat image for one of a 28 canvas installation entitled BELONGING
BELONGING (detail) Cat image for one of a 28 canvas installation entitled BELONGING

 

 

BELONGING: Longing for Place

BELONGING: Longing for Place

A Bundanon Residency Collaboration

Flossie Peitsch and Christina Green

Centre for Theology & Ministry                           May 13th – July 11th

29 College Cres Parkville VIC    3052                      t (03) 9340 8813

Publicity link… Current July 7 2016 http://ctm.uca.edu.au/ctm/events/belonging-exhibition/

Published invitation and ad in Art Guide
Published invitation and ad in Art Guide

HABITAT:DAY 19

Emailed Responses to HABITAT

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Ellen Wilmeth  wrote:

What an accomplishment! After being away for so long! Absolutely stunning! I loved reading each description and thought they were so insightful and very clever! I hope the exhibition is very well received and that you sell every piece! I laughed when I read the last leg story, he sounds like a gem of a guy!

I’m wrapping up details and we’re off to Des Moines tomorrow! Dylan loved your 20 questions idea and he’s going to handle that part!  His girlfriend is wonderful, we love her already!

Know you must be exhausted but hope you can bask in the moment of your impressive work! Love, Ellie W.

On Aug 4, 2016 1:58 AM, “Flossie Peitsch”  wrote:

Thanks, Ellie! I sure do like your feedback! When do you have time to read this stuff? You are a very BIG fan! May I use this on my Blog with your name? I do think the exhibition looks good in its space.

I had my first day of casual teaching since arriving back here. It makes me feel so useful AND I get paid! Hope there is more to come…

I guess I am exhausted. Maybe that contributes to my ‘funk’. DAH!

Aug 4th Ellie W. wrote…

I’m honored to be quoted!

HABITAT:DAY 18

Emailed Responses to HABITAT

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Tim Schwarz wrote:

Awesome work Aunty Flossie, I especially liked Backdrop and Defeet, Backdrop would make a lovely artwork in my home. And is the cover art of a dolls house on legs? I have no where in my house to fit it but I’d certainly do my best to make room for it. All very well done. Neils email was excellent and hilarious, have you worked out how to get the leg  yet?

Love ya, TS

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Flossie Peitsch wrote:

 

Thanks, Tim-o’-my-heart!

Glad you liked BACKDROP! It would like great in your home! Likely to be a ‘leftover’ at some stage and you can stake a claim on it! lol The cover pic is called HOUSEPET

 

I found the doll’s house in the hard rubbish and added the legs but I didn’t know that it would take on such a big personality once the legs were attached! That was a fun surprise. No, Neil’s leg is not here. We have not worked out how to get it yet! I might have to visit them and drive it back here! I will attach a high DPI photo of HOUSEPET and you can print it yourself, frame it and you have a space friendly piece of art. I will even sign the photo when we visit -or you come here – next time!

BTW, may I use your email on my blog site? With your name?

 

MUCH LOVE!

Aunty Flo

HABITAT:DAY 17

HABITAT – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

The Last Leg

 

Neal Nuske and Flossie have been in dialogue vis-à-vis her art practise – casually, since 1975 and intensely, since 2004. A monoped since the age of twelve, Neal takes special interest in HABITAT and its featuring of various disconnected and ‘poised’ legs. Neal offered to contribute his own no-longer-used ‘detachable, bogus leg’. This proposal presented a problem.

Peitsch received the following email from Neal (now edited) soon after she arrived home from a recent, demanding overseas trip….

‘Bad luck about the snubbing welcome from your faithful and loving dog. So much for the notion of canine faithfulness and love. You sound discombobulated, ethnically confused, and suffering from nationalistic uncertainty, badly in need of an existential compass which works.

 

My only struggle has been trying to fit my other leg in a box. I went to a box factory which looked at me askance when I told them I wanted to post my leg to Melbourne. It was only then they looked down and realised I had been defeeted. They offered to reorganise their box making machinery to cut-out a box to suit. When I asked them the cost to do a special run in this gigantic, industrial type, (expletive), box-making factory, it became clear they could cover all their overdraft and back-dated superannuation bills in one sale. The salesperson smiled sweetly and was in no way aware of how close she came to being stuffed into one of their miserable and inadequate boxes and posted forthwith to New Zealand.

 

 

It was also the day I got horribly lost in the industrial area of Brisbane, a simple trip took me two hours. When I asked Australia Post how much it would cost to post one leg to Melbourne it soon became clear that nowhere at all on their filing system did such a postal category exist, the system jammed. I felt lost, alone, isolated and disjointed in the cosmos, without even a dog which had the honesty and integrity to reject me. ’

 

Such is life. With mirthful pathos, this story in itself, recapitulates the essence of HABITAT.  Once again, for these words, Peitsch admits that she owes Neal.

MY DOG PRISCILLA WHO SNUBBED ME WHEN I RETURNED HOME AFTER HAVING LEFT HER.
MY DOG PRISCILLA WHO SNUBBED ME WHEN I RETURNED HOME AFTER HAVING LEFT HER.

HABITAT:DAY 16

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

STACCATO

Groupings 1,2,3,4,5,6

Year: 2016

Medium: Canvas and wood, Set of twenty-five (25) panels.

Dimensions: (31 x 31) x 25

Price: : Each canvas (30cm x 30cm) @ $350 [inc GST and 30% commission]

 

For best results when learning to play music,  it is important to note the composer’s style playing directives. One such term is ‘Staccato’, of Italian origin meaning literally ‘detached or disconnected’. Here a collection of similar shapes relate to each other – or not – within their spaces. These patterns are a metaphor for the seemingly random connecting of cells, creatures, human beings, or experiences during life’s combined journey.

VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO
VARIOUS DETAILS OF STACCATO

HABITAT:DAY 15

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

ACCESS

Year: 2012

Medium: Canvas and paper, Set of ten canvases

Dimensions: 30L x 30W x 10H

Price: Set is $2000 [inc GST and 30% commission]

ACCESS reflexively plays with one’s idea of ‘real art’. The QR* code + one’s phone is all that is required to access a history of artists with ecological / ideological causes or tally future issues that artists may pursue. All this exists outside of but with the support of ‘the white cube’. Going below the surface, it links blank wall, canvas and         technology with alternative space with active place with altered time. This is a blurring of preconceived art ideas and gallery conventions such as word versus image,  system versus sign, sound versus sight, public versus private,  inclusion and exclusion, to name only a few.

(Include info below or use link back to my blogs with this info already in place)

 

ACCESS

by Flossie Peitsch, 2016

A collaboration with Matthias Peitsch

 

Rationale ACCESS reflexively plays with one’s idea of ‘real art’. The QR* code + one’s phone is all that is required to access a history of artists with ecological / ideological causes or tally future issues that artists may pursue. All this exists outside of but with the support of ‘the white cube’. Going below the surface, it links blank wall, canvas and         technology with alternative space with active place with altered time. This is a blurring of preconceived art ideas and gallery conventions such as word versus image,  system versus sign, sound versus sight, public versus private,  inclusion and exclusion, to name only a few.

G is for Gallery
T is for ted.com
H is for Hair
U is for jUnks
E is for Earth
L is for Look
S is for Saatchi
N is for Never
O is for glObal

QR codes

 Collaborating IT/Music Composer: Matthias Peitsch

*This is a QR code and can be scanned by free applications available for a  Smartphone.

Programs that can access QR codes:

Android (free) – barcode scanner, google goggles,
iPhone (free) – RedLaser barcode scanner
Blackberry (free) – QR code scanner free

 

No trees have been harmed during this process.

 

 

ACCESS Contact the artist on 0457 726 257 or flossiepeitsch.com or flossie.peitsch@gmail.com

ACCESS AS A GROUP
ACCESS AS A GROUP

HABITAT:DAY 14

HABITAT Art Chart – Yering Station, 2016

Flossie Peitsch

SIX DEGREES

Year: 2014

Medium: Fabric and canvas, Set of six (6) panels.

Dimensions: (30 x 60) x 6

Price: Total of six $4600 [inc GST and 30% commission

 

Though the tones between black and white are infinite, it is possible to move from one to the other in six tonal steps – using only fabrics found in the ‘average’ Spotlight Store. We are told the same ‘six step’ dictum often holds true in directly connecting oneself with a famous relative or celebrity. Through the morass of human beings, a linking thread of commonality can be discovered. This may also point to connection with all creation.

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SIX DEGREES IN POSITION IN HABITAT
SIX DEGREES IN POSITION IN HABITAT