Raquel Ormella
- Country(activity based)：
- Australia
- Genre：
- Visual Art
Profile
Raquel Ormella, (born: Sydney, 1969) has a diverse practice including video, installations, drawings, and zines/artists books. Her work has been included in the 2008 Sydney Biennale, 2003 Biennale of Istanbul and the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennale. In 2009 the first survey of her work "She went that way", curated by Reuben Keehan was held at Artspace, Sydney. Other recent exhibitions include "Making it new: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art" curated by Glenn Barkley at the MCA, Sydney. Raquel is currently a PhD student at the School of Art, ANU. She is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane, and Uplands Gallery, Melbourne.
About works / performance
My most recent work is a 2channel video work of my collaborator, cinematographer Joe Shemish, and myself walking through a clear fell in Tasmania. A clear fell is an area of forest that has been completely cut down, and destroyed in the process. Tasmania has ancient forests where trees 500 to 700 years old are ground up and used to make paper. My work Walking through Clear Fells, tries to depict this landscape and destruction in a new way, changing both fine art concepts of landscape and activist image of destruction.
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