Biography
Lives and works in UK.
gretchen geraets (b. Aotearoa New Zealand, 1979) is an interdisciplinary visual artist who works across sculpture, photography, installation, performance, and writing, navigating idiosyncratic moments, bodily dissociation, absence and recall. In practice, her process often co-opts methods from one discipline, and applies them (on)to another, for example, employing photography processes to sculptural form.
Currently, geraets is undertaking a long-form project 'Mother lode', developing new bodies of work that seek to make motherhood's productivity visible with the support of an Elephant Trust Grant. Concurrently, she is researching unique ways of working with bronze to interweave personal experiences using her body as material with the support of an Arts Council England DYCP grant. Following her ARiM residency, she continues to explore the home as a site of creative practice and develop methods of presenting her work one-to-one.
geraets is a lecturer (0.4) at Norwich University of the Arts. She is a member of the Association of Photographers’ Education Working Group, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is the co-founder and former co-director of artist-run initiatives 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 (2001), and her MFA in Fine Art with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London (2014).
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