gretchen geraets
Lives and works in Norfolk, UK.
gretchen geraets (b. Aotearoa New Zealand) is an interdisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, photography, installation, and writing, navigating idiosyncratic, private moments, bodily dissociation, absence and recall. Her work explores the intimacies of lived experience, and the interstitial. Her research is informed by feminist thought, situated knowledge, temporality, and literature, and often investigates the role of the hermit in creative practice.
Current long-form projects include ‘Mother lode’, which develops new bodies of work that seek to make motherhood’s productivity visible, with initial support of an Elephant Trust Grant. Following a DYCP award, geraets continues to research unique ways of working with bronze to interweave personal experiences and use her body as material. Following her Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM) at HOME, she explores the home as a site of creative practice and is developing methods of presenting her work one-to-one.
geraets is a lecturer and subject leader in photography (0.4) at Norwich University of the Arts, a peer reviewer for Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice (DRTP) Journal, Intellect and a member of the Association of Photographers (AOP) Education Working Group. She is the co-founder and former co-director of artist-run spaces Canary Gallery in Auckland and g&A studios in Sydney. She received a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand, and an MFA with distinction from Goldsmiths, London.
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