DESCRIPTION:
Acrylic on gessoed poplar panel
9 x 12 (23 x 30.5 cm)
2024
BIO:
Marcia Teusink is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth. Her recent work focuses largely on the historic movement of plants and its implications for contemporary ecological issues such as biodiversity loss. She uses painting, video, mixed media sculpture and installation to invite viewers into botanical stories, often creating pieces that are site-specific and reference particular histories, such as early Italian botanical collecting for an exhibition at the Rome Botanical Gardens (Italy) or the colonial role of Britain in botany for a commission installation in a Victorian twine factory for the Od Arts Festival (Somerset, UK). Born and raised in the USA and living in the UK since 2008, Teusink has exhibited extensively in the UK, the USA and Europe. Venues for her recent exhibitions include: St. Augustine's Tower (London, UK), Territory Expo (Barreiro, Portugal), and St. Bartholomew the Great Church (London, UK). She frequently collaborates with other artists, including an ongoing collaboration with the London-based Ground Collective, with artist Tanya Gill (Chicago, USA) as well as The Prezent group (international). Teusink has been awarded artists’ residencies at the Morris Graves Foundation and Kala Art Institute (California, USA), The Studios at MASSMoCA (Massachusetts, USA), PADA Studios/SLUICE (Barreiro, Portugal) and Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop (London, UK). Teusink’s work can be found in private collections in Europe and the United States. The artist holds a BA (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in Fine Arts from the City University of New York at Queens College, and an MA in Museum Education from the Institute of Education, University College London. Her studio is in Stamford Hill, London.
DESCRIPTION:
Acrylic on gessoed poplar panel
9 x 12 (23 x 30.5 cm)
2024
BIO:
Marcia Teusink is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth. Her recent work focuses largely on the historic movement of plants and its implications for contemporary ecological issues such as biodiversity loss. She uses painting, video, mixed media sculpture and installation to invite viewers into botanical stories, often creating pieces that are site-specific and reference particular histories, such as early Italian botanical collecting for an exhibition at the Rome Botanical Gardens (Italy) or the colonial role of Britain in botany for a commission installation in a Victorian twine factory for the Od Arts Festival (Somerset, UK). Born and raised in the USA and living in the UK since 2008, Teusink has exhibited extensively in the UK, the USA and Europe. Venues for her recent exhibitions include: St. Augustine's Tower (London, UK), Territory Expo (Barreiro, Portugal), and St. Bartholomew the Great Church (London, UK). She frequently collaborates with other artists, including an ongoing collaboration with the London-based Ground Collective, with artist Tanya Gill (Chicago, USA) as well as The Prezent group (international). Teusink has been awarded artists’ residencies at the Morris Graves Foundation and Kala Art Institute (California, USA), The Studios at MASSMoCA (Massachusetts, USA), PADA Studios/SLUICE (Barreiro, Portugal) and Unit 1 Gallery-Workshop (London, UK). Teusink’s work can be found in private collections in Europe and the United States. The artist holds a BA (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in Fine Arts from the City University of New York at Queens College, and an MA in Museum Education from the Institute of Education, University College London. Her studio is in Stamford Hill, London.
