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Gallery: Psyche
and Imagination
"To paint what we see before us is a different art from
painting what we see within ."
- C G Jung ( CW 16, p.102)
As a group we’re conversing with psyche and imagination
using different media, in different ways. Our art still has to
struggle to be authentic and original. It needs to converse with
older images with wit and imagination. I believe, as a group,
we have managed to achieve all this. We are each approaching the
theme of Psyche and Imagination with absolute uniqueness, but
we share a common aim – to demarcate the beauty of psyche
imagining walking the paths of individuation with you, its viewer.
We are also in a dialogue with Jung’s ideas about creativity
and psychic transformation. We are aware that making art can be
scary, and it doesn’t always come out…you have to
be pretty determined to engage in such an act and to stand by
the results. These artists have worked hard to produce works that
engage the ideas we’ll be celebrating this weekend.
- Rachael Steel, Curator
Bettina Reiber - Abstract
Oil on Wooden Panel
The actual images grow from my imagination.
I play with composition, color harmonies, and the translucency
and brilliance of oil paint. In a process that lasts months
new images appear and disappear on the surfaces until finally
a point is reached where I feel a painting has come into its
own, has come to life.
Bettina Reiber is a practicing artist and
curator. She regularly shows in the UK and abroad. Her work
is held in private and public collections. She teaches at
Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University
of the Arts London. She is a member of IAJS and a number of
other academic research groups and she is currently completing
her MA ‘Aesthetics and Art Theory’ (Philosophy)
at Middlesex University where she received the Chancellor’s
Scholarship for Academic Achievement.
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Rachael Steel - Photographic
Collage "Oakfield Road, Winter, 2005"
This piece reflects my interest in the unconscious
as source of art, as well as the importance of chance, or
synchronicity in its creation. Inspiration for the formal
properties of the work; the mandalas of 'Miss X,' reproduced
in Carl Jung's "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious"
as well as the British painter Carel Weight, whom I met at
beginning of my career as an artist.
Rachael Steel is an artist trained and
educated at Brixton College (1991-1992), Chelsea College of
Art and Design (1993-1999) and Essex University (2000-2005).
She is currently working on a series of painted mandalas and
an Artist's Book called, "Love Letters for the Invisible
Man."
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Michael Glock - Mixed
Media on Giclee Base “Imaginatio Tremendum - Four Alchemical
Images” |
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My images derive from original
dreams, numinous encounters and original experiences. They
are mandalas that symbolize wholeness, and they are talismans
heralding the future. They are anchors, that when reflected
upon, unconceal hidden and veiled truths. These images ameliorate
and act as a soothing balm whereby opposites can combine and
mutually coexist. They are in essence images of the Mysterium
Coniunctionis. Each image contains constellated opposites
and reveals through imaginary and symbol that which can only
be defined through the shadowlands.
Michael Glock is a member of the World Future
Society and The International Association for Jungian Studies
(in the United Kingdom ). He has been interviewed as a change
agent and visionary in broadcast media worldwide and has been
published in over 200 magazines, newspapers and other media.
As a visionary futurist and artist, his work has been exhibited
in New Zealand, the United States, Japan, Saudi Arabia and
Australia. He is the author of Raisin Bread Toast, a published
(2004) memoir depicting a young boy’s rites-of-passage
in the 1950’s and 1960’s in New Zealand.
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Maria Tavernas - Bronze
Sculpture |
"Emergence of the Winged Serpent"
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"The Serpent Woman" |
For the last few years, I have been working
on a series of sculptures that derive from a series of dreams
that I had after I visited the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich
the early1990s. Jung was in the first dream, and I was lying
on a couch in the consulting room. I was telling him that
I didn’t understand why I had such a profusion of serpents
coming out of my mouth. I was shocked that I had so many inside
me. They were emerging from a very deep part of me. Jung was
saying, “Well, this is very interesting.” It was
as if he understood the phenomenon and was validating my experience,
that it was not odd or absurd, that it was archetypally human.
It seemed that Jung wanted to reassure me that it was natural
for all of these serpents to come out. They were not supposed
to live inside me. I understood that I was giving them life
and that all of these serpents were images of creativity.
Eventually, in another dream…the upper part of my body
was a woman, but the lower part of my body was a serpent.
I regard my “dream art” as an example of what
Susan Rowland calls the ‘feminist revision’ in
Jungian Studies.
Maria Taveras, L.C.S.W., is a psychoanalyst
in training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and an
award-winning sculptor of ‘dream art.’ Her sculpture
Transformation of the Feminine received a 2004 Gradiva Award
from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis,
and her sculptures Emergence of the Winged Serpent and Serpent-Woman
were exhibited in the juried Dream Art Show at the 2005 conference
of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
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