News: December 2009
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
The RCA Secret exhibition takes place at the Royal College of Arts from:
Friday 13th November - Friday 20th November 2009. Gallery opening times are 11am - 6pm, with a late night opening to 8pm on Thursday 19th November. Admission is free.
The sale takes place from 8am - 6pm, Saturday 21st November 2009, although the sale might close earlier if all of the postcards have been sold.For more information or to register for the RCA Secret sale; email secret@rca.ac.uk
News: October 2009
Exhibition of the Lister School project 'Untold Stories' opens at
Central St. Martin's Foyer Black Hill Thursday 15th October
From spring to summer Caruana worked with the Performance arts based Lister School in East London as part of Central Saint Martins Outreach programme. Throughout the weeks the twelve to thirteen year old students worked towards photographically telling an 'Untold Told Story' from their home.
Their final work was exhibited at the school and is now being present as part of an outreach festival at Central St. Martins. The work will also be publicly exhibited as part of Newham Councils Creative Festival in 2010.
News: September 2009
New body of work 'Slap- Stick and Slaughter' has been exhibited throughout the summer at
'The Fool' at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, North East. 31st July - 19th September
******************* Extended opening until Saturday 28th September ************************
This is Natasha's first moving image piece made whilst on residency with Clowns International this summer. The five minute piece 'Slap- Stick and Slaughter' documents the fortunes of
the 'clown's union', Clowns International, and of its members. She
reveals one of the most bizarre group portraits ever made, and held by
the organisation: an archive of hundreds of painted eggs, each with a
member's trademark face make-up.
Special thanks to: Graham Treadwell, Jasmin Giles, Jess Hannan, Kali Hughes, Priyamvada Kulkarni, Ruth Chambers, Simone Wallace and Zoe Kinross.
Still from the film- 'Slap- Stick and Slaughter' 2009
News: July/ August 2009
Previous news:
Natasha's work in the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art group show 'Invisible Adversaries' (which also included works by Xavier Cha, John Constable and Francisco de Goya) was reviewed in last months 'Art Review:'
"Representation of men in the show are few. Natasha Caruana's photo series Married Man(2008) presents visual and aural documentation of the artist's meetings with men who solicited affairs on the internet, but the mens faces are cropped from the photos- all we are afforded are clues pointing to their taste in food and dress. Meanwhile sound recordings of the various dates are broadcast from speakers; spectral voices are all we have to identify them. It makes for complex work that shows both man and woman trading on anonymity to ensnare the other".
Laura Allsop
Married Man, 2009 Installation (C-type prints and audio)