{"id":12071,"date":"2016-06-23T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2016-06-22T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:10:35","slug":"christine-garvey-drawing-in-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/christine-garvey-drawing-in-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Garvey: Mindful engagement through drawing in Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you look at Christine Garvey<\/b><\/a>\u2019s large abstract paintings, you probably wouldn\u2019t say that she\u2019s been strongly influenced by the experience of drawing in Florence<\/b>. In its pop colours and painterly expressions, her work is highly contemporary. But underlying it is an exploration of body and technology<\/b> that has been influenced by two historic scientific collections in Florence \u2013 La Specola and Museo Galileo \u2013 which she came to know through drawing. I met up with the Fulbright Scholar to talk about her work and about a drawing class<\/b> she\u2019s holding in Florence<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n

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Christine Garvey | Photo Beatrice Mancini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New-York born Garvey came to Florence, like many of us, as a student about 10 years ago, and at the time was really attracted to La Specola, with its collection of wax anatomies in particular, and the Galileo Museum, which houses historic scientific instruments. At the time, she didn\u2019t realize exactly what it was that attracted her to items in these museums, which she carefully recorded through drawing. During her MFA at Concordia University in Montreal, she honed her artistic and intellectual skills and started to explore more deeply how these collections were connected, both historically, and to her personally.<\/p>\n

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This is my favourite painting by Christine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n