Heat Map
Bernadette Klavins and Anna Madeleine Raupach, curated by Saskia Scott
EXHIBITION
Heat Map asks us to consider how heat forges our environment, our culture, and our bodies. Featuring new work by Bernadette Klavins and Anna Madeleine Raupach, Heat Map is concerned with heat as a transformative climatic and physical force. Bernadette and Anna share a strong understanding of the poetic potential of material. Both artists engage deeply with the science and data of climate change. Their work draws on their own quiet observations of cultural and environmental phenomena, communicating nuanced insights into the greatest challenge of our time.
Heat Map is curated by Saskia Scott.
ARTIST BIOS
Anna Madeleine Raupach is a multidisciplinary artist and a Lecturer in Printmedia & Drawing at ANU School of Art & Design. Her practice-led research explores expressive interpretations of scientific concepts with a focus on using mixed reality to imagine alternative notions of temporality relevant to climate change. Anna has a PhD in Media Arts from UNSW Art & Design (2014). She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Montreal and Bandung. She has participated in residencies including at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2018); Bundanon Trust, NSW (2018); Common Room Network Foundation, Indonesia through Asialink Arts (2017); the ANU Medical School, and the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. She is currently completing a research fellowship at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney.
Based in Tartanya (Adelaide), Bernadette Klavins is an artist working in the field of sculpture. Through processes of casting, Klavins draws out the poetic potential of materials and interrogates our human relationship to deep time. In 2016, Klavins graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art with First Class Honours and received a Major Travel Award. The following year, she completed a residency at The Icelandic Association of Visual Art in Reykjavik. Klavins has since exhibited at spaces including Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Cool Change Contemporary, FELTspace, Floating Goose Studios, Adelaide Central Gallery, Art Pod and Carclew. Klavins has also lectured in First Year Sculpture at Adelaide Central School of Art, been a Co-Director at FELTspace, and currently works at the Art Gallery of South Australia in the Public Programs team. Klavins works from Switchboard Studios in Norwood.
Saskia Scott is an independent curator based in Canberra. She is interested in generative modes of curatorial thought, and in art that challenges hegemony and imagines better futures. In 2020, she curated exhibitions at ANCA Gallery and PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery. Saskia’s past professional roles include Senior Gallery Coordinator for the Australian National University School of Art & Design Gallery, and Gallery Coordinator for the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation in Adelaide. Saskia has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Ceramics) from the University of South Australia, and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics & International Studies and Hispanic Studies) from the University of Adelaide. In 2017, Saskia completed a Graduate Certificate in Art History from the University of Adelaide.
