{"id":47,"date":"2025-08-08T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwasa.fi\/artcampus\/?p=47"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:36:02","slug":"university-of-vaasa-tritonia-exhibition-opening-august-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwasa.fi\/artcampus\/en\/2025\/08\/08\/university-of-vaasa-tritonia-exhibition-opening-august-14-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Vaasa – Tritonia Exhibition \u2013 Opening August 14, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found in Translation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Artist\u2019s Statement – Katey O’Sullivan<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In Found in Translation<\/em>, Australian artist Katey O\u2019Sullivan presents a deeply felt response to her time as artist-in-residence at the University of Vaasa. This body of work gathers subtle impressions of place \u2014 not only a literal documentation, but an abstract, sensory mapping, charting a remembered topography shaped by weather, light, landscape, and human exchange.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s process begins in conversation. Handwritten and spoken words collected from the university community, serve as conceptual seeds that echo throughout the work in layered, non-verbal ways. Her practice embraces slowness and sustainability: incorporating vintage fabric, inherited thread, and found objects, she constructs works that carry both personal and material histories. The act of making becomes one of translation \u2014 from language to gesture, from impressions to tactile form.<\/p>\n

The series includes mixed media on board, photography, textile works on paper, and a handmade artist book \u2014 each piece forming part of an intimate archive of connection and memory.<\/p>\n

There is a deep respect here for the overlooked and the in-between \u2014 for the ways we come to know a place not through landmarks, but through mood, texture, and encounter. Nature, too, plays a subtle but persistent role. The Nordic light, shifting weather, and expenses of sea and sky in the region, inform the palette and composition.\u00a0 As a visitor, O\u2019Sullivan brings a new perspective; yet her gentle, observant approach allows the work to resonate beyond geography, inviting viewers to consider their own relationships with memory and place.<\/p>\n

In slowing down and paying close attention to the everyday, O\u2019Sullivan reminds us that connection can be found in the smallest of things, and that beauty often lives in the quietest spaces.\u00a0 She invites viewers not to observe, but to feel; not to decode, but to allow the mind drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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