Night of the Arts - Found in Translation -exhibition
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Opening of the Found in Translation exhibition as part of the Night of the Arts
Night of the arts
Exhibition Opening: ‘Found in Translation’
University of Vaasa-Tritonia Library, Wolffintie 32, Vaasa.
Date & Time:
Thursday August 14, 2025
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Meet Australian artist Katey O’Sullivan as she introduces a new series of work made in response to her Artist Residency at the University of Vaasa, March-June 2025.
Coinciding with the artist’s inclusion in the Wasa Future Festival exhibition Butterfly: glo-cal effects of data, energy and industry, O’Sullivan’s latest series captures lasting impressions from her time spent in the Vaasa and Ostrobothnia region.
Expanding on ‘handwritten words’ collected during scheduled conversations with members of the university community during her residency, the artist has taken these fragments and used them as a launching point, connecting what is broadly meaningful, and translating the words into abstract images.
The works continue a practice that focusses on the themes of nature, storytelling, and place. O’Sullivan lends her visitor’s eye to reveal a new perspective and remind us of the beauty that can be found in our everyday surroundings. Incorporating repurposed fabrics, inherited thread and found objects, her commitment to sustainable practice lends a personal and nostalgic aura to her works and weaves a narrative that ties the series to the history of Vaasa and the ‘cotton girls’. The series consists of textile works, a handmade artist book, photographs, and acrylic paintings on birch board.
Found in Translation exhibition will continue until the end of September 2025.
Butterfly: glo-cal effects of data, energy and industry is an international new media and performance exhibition that will take place at the Wasa Innovation Centre, August 11-31st, 2025 as a part of the Wasa Future Festival, August 11-16, 2025.