Stephen Eastaugh @ Turner Galleries

From Turner Galleries | 03 Sep 2010

Exhibition continues to 5pm Saturday 16 October

Stephen Eastaugh is Turner Galleries’ final artist in residence for 2010. Stephen is a nomadic artist who has been travelling the world incessantly since 1981, living vicariously from one residency and exhibition to the next in over 80 countries, exploring and painting some extraordinary places in the process.  In 2009 he spent 11 months at the Mawson Station (the windiest place on Earth) in East Antarctica when he was the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow. He had to undergo a rigorous military adaptability psychological test to do this long stay.  He noted whilst there, “the concept of home has become somewhat fuzzy in my head. That kind of makes Antarctica intriguing to me because Antarctica is no body’s home, and therefore it becomes strangely cosy for me.  Work that out!”  

ARTIST TALK : ALL WELCOME
3PM SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER