【駐村藝術家】工作坊成果發表：Catherine Ann Brophy

藝術家 Catherine Ann Brophy 駐村計畫於2025年7月26日在舉行開放工作室與社區創作成果發表。Brophy 長期關注建築與都市化過程中的視覺語言，其創作以觀察性素描為基礎，運用混合媒材將建築中的細節轉化為抽象構圖，進而探討空間、結構與形式的交錯關係。在羅東駐村期間，她透過日常的田野踏查與影像紀錄，聚焦於在地鄉土建築在開發進程中所產生的形式重疊與語彙堆疊，進一步建構出一系列紙上繪畫作品。

此次駐村亦包含與地方社群的深度互動。於7月24日舉行之社區工作坊中，藝術家帶領漢民社區居民以自身對於地方的觀察與記憶為基礎，進行拼貼創作。作品從屋簷線條到牆面肌理，呈現個人與地方的深層連結，亦體現藝術實踐如何介入並延伸空間記憶與集體認同的建構。

開放工作室期間，觀眾得以近距離觀看藝術家創作脈絡與方法，並透過現場交流進一步理解其對建築空間的轉譯與想像。展覽將持續開放至7月30日，歡迎公眾前來參觀、對話，參與一場藝術與地方記憶交織的現場。

The artist Catherine Ann Brophy (Cath) concluded her residency at Surfy Space on July 26, 2025, with an Open Studio and Community Workshop Presentation. Cath’s long-standing artistic inquiry explores the visual language of architecture within the context of urbanization. Grounded in observational drawing, her practice employs mixed media to abstract and recompose isolated architectural elements, examining the intersections of space, structure, and form. During her residency in Luodong, she carried out daily fieldwork and photographic documentation, focusing on the layered patterns and formal vocabularies that emerge from the overlapping of rural architecture and ongoing development. These observations informed a new series of mixed-media works on paper.

A key aspect of the residency was its engagement with the local community. On July 24, Cath led a workshop in Community, where residents were invited to create collages based on their own spatial memories and everyday observations. From the lines of rooftops to the textures of aging walls, each work expressed an individual perspective on the built environment, revealing how artistic processes can extend and reshape collective memory and place-based identity.

The July 26 Open Studio provided visitors with a chance to engage closely with Cath’s creative process and conceptual framework. Her works remain on view at Surfy Space through July 30. The public is warmly invited to visit, connect, and experience this dialogue between art, architecture, and local memory.