Partnership with Trigger: GROW
Trigger are shapeshifting creatives who dream-up, create and produce bold and brave live and digital events. GROW, one of their exciting new projects, is a radical online art and horticulture project that seeks to connect creatives and audiences from across the globe in a new and innovative digital R&D process.
Take Me Somewhere joins Trigger's partners from Royal Botanic Gardens, (Victoria & Melbourne, Australia) , Kew Gardens, Brisbane Festival , University of New South Wales and SummerWorks (Toronto) who have nominated artists from their respective countries to develop creative ideas. Working both collaboratively and individually, artists and academics will discover and explore the themes of biopiracy. Connecting artists and academics from Australia, Canada and the UK, GROW unpacks the tangled history of botany, plant uses and ownership, in an essential and fascinating conversation that will educate and inspire new and exciting artistic concepts.
Ensuring Scottish artists are engaged in global creative practice and research TMS is supporting Christine Ting - Huan 挺歡 Urquhart to be part of GROW through our Studio Somewhere Artist Development strand.
For more on GROW see: grow-triggerstuff.co.uk. For more on Trigger: triggerstuff.co.uk/about
About Christine Ting - Huan 挺歡 Urquhart :
Christine Ting - Huan 挺歡 Urquhart is a former Fine Art Painter and Sculptor working in Live Performance as a Set & Costume Designer and an Art Director / Production Designer for Film.
Christine’s Taiwanese British heritage deeply roots her collaborations with the underrepresented and displaced. She spent seven years designing in Europe, Australasia and Canada, and is currently based in Scotland and studied Fine Art at Farnham Art College and Cardiff Metropolitan University, and Theatre Design at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Christine’s work questions viewpoints, histories and narrative structure through form as a Design driven interrogation, the body as a political statement and getting audiences out of black boxes to be witnesses to a different kind of event.
