Attempts at artist statements

Min praktik undersöker teman som tid, avstånd, mänsklig strävan, minne, materialitet och språk. Jag sätter ihop objekt och idéer på lyriska eller oväntade sätt, inspirerat av psykogeografi, assemblage och fiktion. Mina material är anspråkslösa, vardagliga, familjära för att skapa ett initialt samband med betraktaren, eller bortglömda tekniker som kan väcka olika minnen. Allt från fiskelina, vintage slipsar, snigeltejp, filmjölk, och lufttorkande lera till diabilder, karbonpapper, och objekt hittade secondhand.

Repetition, mark-making, att iaktta och samla används som skulpturala metoder av översättning och transformation. Jag hämtar iakttagelser och material från min vardag och nära omgivningen, för att förankra mer efemära, immateriella element i mina verk med en fysikalitet och lokalitet.

My practice explores themes of time, distance, human endeavour, memory, materiality and language. I bring objects and ideas together in lyrical and unexpected ways, inspired by psychogeography, assemblage, and fiction.

Min praktik undersöker teman som tid, avstånd, mänsklig strävan, minne, materialitet och språk. Jag sätter ihop objekt och idéer på lyriska eller oväntade sätt, inspirerat av psykogeografi, assemblage och fiktion. Mina material är anspråkslösa, vardagliga, familjära - för att skapa ett initialt samband med betraktaren. Repetition, mark-making, att iaktta och samla har blivit skulpturala metoder av översättning och transformation.

Florence Wild works with sculpture, language and the world around us by poetically combining humble materials with found objects using simple everyday techniques. At Sea finds fishing line, snigeltejp, carbon paper, slide viewers, filmjölk, bike inner tubes and spontaneous second-hand finds draped, knitted, traced, stitched and assembled together. She lives in Stockholm.

Florence Wild (1987) lives in Stockholm. Using humble or found materials she works mainly with sculpture, textiles and words. Drawing upon her immediate surroundings, everyday activities of collecting, browsing and arranging become poetic methods through which her works reflect on time, distance, human endeavour and built environments.

She holds an MFA in Fine Art from Konstfack, Sweden (2017), and a BFA from Elam School of Fine Art in Aotearoa New Zealand (2009).

Works, writing, and further attempts at artist statements can be found at www.florencewild.com.

I am an artist originally from New Zealand living in Stockholm, whose practice builds on everyday actions of observing, arranging, collecting and browsing as artistic methods, creating works as poetic responses to traces from my immediate surroundings and the built environment. Translation, repetition and other gestures are recurring ways I reflect on time, distance, absurdity and human endeavour, often using experiences of relocation as a departure point. My practice encompasses sculpture, textiles, drawing and installations that often contain elements of moving image and sound, making use of appropriated humble materials and found objects that have been assembled in unexpected ways.

The methods in my practice revolve around the studio as an ecology and archive, where I use whatever is close at hand and can rework pieces into new arrangements and formations. Alongside my studio practice I write reflective texts mainly around exhibitions and other artists’ practices.

Florence Wild (1987) is an artist and writer living in Stockholm. Her practice combines humble materials with techniques of collecting, arranging and repetitive gestures in sculptural and textile works that reflect on our built environments, time, and human endeavour. This feels like her first show for a while.

I combine studio practice, where I work with sculpture, drawing and textiles, with writing around artists’ practices. I’ve focused on repetitive, contemplative processes as forms of mark-making such as knitting and embroidery, but have also expanded to assemblage techniques, and bringing in influences from everyday life by turning observation, collecting, and browsing into artistic methods and using more simple, found or collected materials. These processes reflect the themes of human endeavour and our inhabited spaces in relation to time and impermanence that I have explored in exhibitions like Local Haunts.

My name is Florence Wild, and I am an artist and writer currently based in Stockholm, originally from Auckland, New Zealand.

In my practice I combine textile techniques and materials with those of sculpture, drawing, sound and moving image, to make larger installations. I explore ideas around the thread or line’s poetic relationship to time, distance, narrative and labour, by using knitting and embroidery as repetitive gestures and means of mark-marking.

The textile elements of my works are often contemplative, labour intensive manifestations of time and material, which I then combine with more spontaneous, immediate sculptural components as a counterweight. These are humble or found materials from everyday life that help to give my works often a cobbled together, vernacular aesthetic, by working mainly in my studio with whatever happens to be close at hand.

Mitt konstnärskap handlar om möten mellan det poetiska och det vardagliga i en bräcklig nutid. Att iaktta, att samla, och att ordna blir konstnärliga metoder för att transformera oftast enkla, funna eller återvunna material och objekt med hjälp av upprepade gester, språk, och tid. Jag är intresserad av mänskliga strävan och de spår vi lämnar efter oss. Varje tryck, intryck eller avtryck är av betydelse.

Florence Wild is a New Zealand artist living in Stockholm, whose practice builds from everyday pastimes of observing, arranging, collecting and browsing as artistic methods, into works created as poetic responses to fragments, traces and residues from her immediate surroundings. Translation, repetition and other such gestures are recurring ways to reflect on time, distance, absurdity and human endeavour. Her practice encompasses sculpture, textiles, drawing and installation, often containing elements of moving image and sound, making use of appropriated humble materials and found objects.

She often writes for other artists and exhibitions and holds an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design and a BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts. Recent exhibitions include Local Haunts, Galleri ID:I, Stockholm, Il Giardino, Galleri Nos, Stockholm, and Mason’s Screen, Wellington.

I work with sculpture, drawing, textiles and installation, in a practice that combines repetitive techniques, found objects and humble everyday materials into poetic responses to my immediate environments and circumstances. By using observation, collecting, browsing and arranging as methods of art-making, I bring an eclectic mix of associations and references together gathered from art, architecture, literature and personal recollections, and explore through repeated gestures relationships between time, absurdity and human endeavour.

Florence Wild works with sculpture, drawing, textiles and installation. Her practice combines repetitive techniques, found objects and humble everyday materials into poetic responses to her immediate environments and circumstances. By using observation, collecting, browsing and arranging as methods of art-making, she brings eclectic varieties of associations and references together, and explores through repeated gestures relationships between time, absurdity and human endeavour.

b.1987 Auckland, New Zealand. Living and working in Stockholm after moving to Sweden in 2010. She works with objects and installation that bring together all sorts of media, using gestures and actions like repetition, collecting, arranging, observation and browsing as artistic methods. Her practice explores the convergence of place, body and material with circumstance, alongside themes of time, the everyday and human endeavour. She often writes for other artists and other exhibitions. Alongside her practice she also works within art education and libraries.

I am a New Zealand artist currently living in Stockholm, Sweden, where I have been based for the past 6 years. During this time my practice has developed into ongoing reflections on the relationship between one’s immediate surroundings to other intangible environments or spaces: be that of memory, distance, or imaginary. I often work with laborious, repeated gestures as a way of both unravelling and accumulating these sensibilities, and to explore ideas around time, absurdity and human endeavour.

Jag arbetar oftast med skulptur, assemblage och installation, där jag transformerar enkla material genom tidskrävande, upprepade processer, och kombinerar dem med återvunna eller funna objekt. Upprepade gester har blivit en metod för reflektion kring förhållandet mellan tid, absurditet och mänsklig strävan, några centrala teman i mitt konstnärskap. Mina verk bygger också på associationer mellan platser, minnen, och distans - influerat av min flytt från Nya Zeeland till Sverige 2010. Min praktik utforskar idéer om samhörighet och dubbelhet och hur skapandet kan vara ett sätt att anpassa sig till en ny omgivning.

Mitt namn är Florence Wild och jag är en konstnär som bor och arbetar i Stockholm, uppväxt i Auckland, Nya Zeeland och med en Masterexamen i fri konst från Konstfack, 2017.

I min konstnärliga praktik arbetar jag med skulptur, assemblage och installation, där jag transformerar enkla material genom tidskrävande, upprepade processer, och kombinerar dem med återvunna eller funna objekt. Upprepade gester har blivit en metod för reflektion kring förhållandet mellan tid, absurditet och mänsklig strävan, några centrala teman i mitt konstnärskap.

Mina verk bygger också på associationer mellan platser, minnen, och distans - influerat av min flytt från Nya Zeeland till Sverige år 2010. Jag reflekterar ofta kring idéer om samhörighet och dubbelhet och hur skapandet kan vara ett sätt att anpassa sig till en ny omgivning.

She draws inspiration from daily life and how one navigates the act of living, working with simple, humble materials, and everyday practices of observing, collecting, browsing, and arranging as artistic methods. How we live in spaces like homes, gardens and cities influence the ways in which she relates her works to their surroundings.

Florence Wild works with sculpture, installation, text and assemblage. In these installations are usually a lot of smaller works that use techniques like knitting, embroidery, repetition and looping, that she then arranges together, sometimes including elements of moving image or sound. She draws inspiration from daily life and how one navigates the act of living, working with simple, humble materials, and everyday practices of observing, collecting, browsing, and arranging as artistic methods. How we live in spaces like homes, gardens and cities influence the ways in which she relates her works to their surroundings.

Florence is an artist originally from Auckland, New Zealand, who moved to Sweden in 2010 and is now based in Stockholm. She graduated with an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm, in 2017, and since then has been working on a relatively localized scale developing her studio-based practice alongside part time work: in libraries and currently as an education administrator at the Art Department at Konstfack. In her studio-based practice she works with mostly humble or found materials exploring ideas around time, observation, labour, nurture and archives; working with time-consuming processes, the domestic sphere, collecting, assemblage, installation, sculpture, writing, repetition and everyday life.

She has exhibited throughout Sweden in numerous group shows at artist run spaces, and occasionally in NZ and other places around the world.

I work with sculpture, installation and text, where language, materials and space are treated as intimate bedfellows. Using often simple means and amateurish methods, I see myself as a collector of things, an observer, detective, and unreliable narrator.

Florence Wild (b.1987, Akl, NZ) is an artist, writer, library assistant, art education administrator, translator and exhibition assistant based in Stockholm. She works primarily with sculpture, text and installation, constructing relationships between fiction, history and language with observations from her own everyday life.

She works with simple materials, and often time-based techniques. By collecting, adapting and assembling fragments and observations from everyday situations and cultural references, she depicts acts of living as a fragile, intricate and elastic series of encounters.

My practice often plays with thoughts around time, distance and proximities, our relationships to our surroundings both concrete and close at hand, and abstracted and out of reach. These concerns stem from my relocation from New Zealand to Sweden and the subsequent and continuous reorientation that move has entailed over the past 10 years.

Florence Wild’s practice explores relationships between daily observations, fiction, history and language on conceptual and poetic levels.

She works associatively and responsively with simple materials, and often time-based techniques. By collecting, adapting and assembling fragmentary observations from everyday situations and cultural references into multilayered spatial installations, she depicts living and society as a fragile, intricate and elastic series of encounters.

Florence Wild works primarily with sculpture, writing and spatial installation. She is interested in how language, time and materiality combine with elements of fiction, where observations and small details gathered from the everyday and simple materials can be transformed through techniques like repetition, looping or unexpected associations.

Her work often refers to ideas around domesticity, ageing, and distance; Time as an unreliable narrator, and the thread, or line, as a technique to illustrate this. Drawing on her relocation from New Zealand to Sweden, she poses questions around being out of place or time, duality, navigation and place, and the materiality of words and translation.

She dips regularly into a vast pool of cultural references including film noir and classic crime fiction to play with ideas of deception, suspense, mystery and absurdity, as a way to reflect on contemporary life.

Florence Wild works with sculpture, installation and writing. Her works often reflect on such themes as time and distance, by combining labour intensive processes with simple materials and observations from the everyday. She uses the imagery of the line or thread to suggest the intricate, uncertain and elastic nature of time, space and language in series of spatial encounters.

Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, she is currently living in Stockholm.

Florence Wild’s (Aotearoa New Zealand) practice includes sculpture, installation and writing, where language and material are treated as intimate bedfellows. She is based in Stockholm and has an MFA from Konstfack (2017) and a BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts (2009).

My practice includes sculpture, installation and writing, where language and material are treated as intimate bedfellows. As an artist I see myself as a combination of an observer, detective, and unreliable narrator.

My practice is built around fictions. That things are not as, or more than, they appear to be. Works are constructed and arranged as lyrical forms, like a language. Acts of translation, transformation, recurrence and repetition are important points of departure, and points to revisit.

The intersection of my artist practice and my role as library assistant - processes I use in making are directly related to my work in libraries. Accumulations of time, proximity, physicality of information, information as material. Library work is full of mundane repetitive actions, meditative, through repetition a space to think is formed. Making as navigation, translations between material, process and form. Sculpture is a negotiation between myself and material. Repeated gestures accumulate and fragment time, while the residual forms build up a history of associations that are experienced bodily. Works feel vulnerable, transitory.

Fiction figures strongly in Florence Wild’s practice; things are not as they seem, or more than they appear to be. Interweaving everyday materials with poetic imagery - clouds, fishing line, soap bubbles, tent poles, labyrinths, venetian blinds - she reflects upon fragmentary, tenuous structures with the potential to collapse or dissolve. Sculptural objects, sound works, and digital and analogue projections are placed together in arrangements of lyrical forms. Acts of translation, transformation, recurrence and repetition are important points of departure, and points to revisit.

Mitt konstnärskap tar formen av skulpturala iakttagelser och meditationer, och börjar oftast med text och språk. Ibland säger jag att jag skissa med ord. Jag vill ge mina verk språkets fluiditet och rytm, och skapa former som befinner sig mellan två språk, där jag ofta befinner mig själv. Där är ett ords betydelse mer öppet att tolkas, och där letar jag efter sätt att översätta, att skifta mellan former och material, för att skapa en större kunskap eller sensibilitet.

Florence Wild works with sculpture and installation; interested in the nature of time, language and materials, a keen observer, collector and lover of mysteries. She often transforms common materials with repetitive gestural techniques to question functionality in favour of fictive, lyrical, associative qualities.

Mitt konstnärskap tar formen av skulpturala iakttagelser och meditationer, och börjar oftast med text och språk. Jag vill ge mina verk språkets fluiditet och rytm, och skapa former som befinner sig mellan språk, där jag ofta befinner mig själv. När jag tänker på mina verk jag tänker på en sårbarhet som svävar omkring deras flytande former. En sårbarhet som liknar en vibration: det känns genom huden, i fingertoppar, på tungan, och är en annan form av ständigt rörelse.

Mitt konstnärskap tar formen av skulpturala iakttagelser och meditationer, och börjar oftast med text och språk. Jag vill ge mina verk språkets fluiditet och rytm, och skapa former som befinner sig mellan två språk, där jag ofta befinner mig själv. Där är ett ords betydelse mer öppet att tolkas, och där letar jag efter en form av översättning. Att flytta mellan former och material. Att skapa en större sensibilitet.

I often think of what I do as works of fiction, things that are not as they seem, or more than they appear to be. I work with sculpture as the construction and arrangement of lyrical forms, like a language. Sculpture takes on many forms: objects, sound, text, digital and analogue projections. Acts of translation, transformation, recurrence and repetition are important points of departure, and points to revisit.

Originally from Auckland, New Zealand and currently living in Stockholm, Sweden, Florence Wild works primarily with sculpture, text and installation. Her works often explore thoughts around language, time and observation, using repetition and simple everyday materials.

My studio-based practice reflects upon the act of artmaking as a negotiation between myself, materials and my surroundings in an ongoing, mutual transaction. Assemblage and installation is important; grouping works together in a specific space has become an act of finding compassion between objects, and the exhibition space functions as an extension of the studio. I focus in particular on the lyricality that emerges from the intertwining of language and form.

Min praktik byggs på iakttagelser och intima möten med min nära omgivningen, parat med reflektioner kring tid, distans och samhörighet. Jag använder enkla material såsom fiskelina, lufttorkande lera, wellpapp, och färgblyerts som ofta blir transformerat genom tidskrävande och arbetsintensiva upprepade gester. Jag arbetar med skulptur, text, diabildsprojektioner och rörlig bild, ljudverk, och platsspecifika ritningar, och grupperar flera verk eller element tillsammans i olika skulpturala installationer.

I explore how materials, relationships and time are valued, by reconstituting and reforming artworks as shape-shifting elements in my practice.

As a New Zealander based in Sweden for 9 years, I have come to understand my practice as a negotiation between times and distances, which is why I often work with time consuming, labour intensive processes, inverted timeframes and materials from the everyday - I am looking for ways to anchor myself, and my practice, in the specific place I find myself now.

Jag ser min praktik huvudsakligen som rumsligt och skulpturalt, en serier av relationer och möten mellan objekt, kroppar, platser och tid. Jag tolkar ljud, rörlig bild, och text som skulpturala former och material. Mina skulpturer är ofta mjuka och ofta består av flera elementer som kan installeras på flera olika sätt. De är gjorda för att anpassa till deras omgivningar: att vika, rulla upp, stapla, dingla eller falla ihop.

When describing my practice, words like repetition, observation, fragility, language, materiality, poetics, time, navigation, translation and weather constantly recur. Through sculpture I respond to relationships and connections between these words and how they resonate and evolve in the world around us.

I use sculpture as instruments of accumulation, a way to depict passages of time through gestures and movements repeated and committed to memory, a second nature. Time is elastic, it can be slowed down or sped up, duplicated, cyclical and contradictory; through repetition time is transformed into a material with physical properties, with weight, texture, colour; visible and audible.