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Macao-Elsewhere Installation at Lingan University, November 2011.

Macao-Elsewhere Project

MACAO-ELSEWHERE PROJECT (2010-2011) explores the relations between geographically-dispersed places and people. Each of the mixed media postcards in the project is a collaboration by two people, one of whom was in Macao. The making of…

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Time with the Sky #8' (detail) with front cover of the book (design by Grey Lai).

Time with the Sky/與天度日

Time with the Sky/與天度日 was an art and poetry collaboration by Carol Archer and Christopher (Kit) Kelen. Time with the Sky/與天度日 comprised a series of charcoal and mixed media drawings on paper and a poem in twelve parts.

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Work of Macao Hands, 2006, #2,watercolour on paper, 56 x 42 cm

Work of Macao Hands

“Work of Macao Hands: Watercolours by Carol Archer” was held at the University of Macau’s Library Gallery from 10th November until 7th December 2006. The paintings explore the rapidly changing city of Macao and the construction that may be found around every corner.

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About Carol

Carol Archer has lived in Hong Kong and Macao since 1998. Her solo and collaborative works have been exhibited in Australia, Macao, Hong Kong, China, Japan and Italy. Recent exhibitions include ‘placemarks’ (Lingnan University Fong Sum Wood Library, Hong Kong, 2011), ‘Time with the Sky’ (Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong, 2010), ‘Out of Thin Air: collaborative and solo work’ (Lingnan University Fong Sum Wood Library, Hong Kong, 2010), ‘Near and Far and Mostly Macao,’ (S.W. Anthony Lau Exhibition Hall, University of Macau, Macao, 2009), ‘Reciprocal Interference’ (Podspace, Newcastle, Australia, 2008) and ‘Knot, Touch, Trace’, (CCI, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, 2007). Archer teaches in the Visual Studies Department at Lingnan University. Her current research is on contemporary collaborative painting.

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Carol and Anna (delivered March 29, 2012)

Elsewhere Project – Home

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CA&ST’s Reciprocal Interference

After a one year hiatus, these are the A4-sized “starts” Carol Archer has sent to long-time collaborator Sue Taylor.  Watch this space to see how Sue completes them, and the new “starts” Sue sends to…

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Macao-Elsewhere Project. 2010-2011.

Macao-Elsewhere Project is a series of mixed media postcards, 21 x 15 cm in size, that explore the relations between geographically-dispersed places and people. Each of the mixed media cards in the series is a collaboration by two people, one of whom was in Macao.

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