Ferdia Goet is an Artist, maker and film photographer. Ferdia’s practice focuses on elements of design through the medium of flowers. Growing up in a mixed cultural background, from an early age she understood the importance of the land, myth and magic. Spending summers travelling to the Anatolian plateau encountering nomadic distant relatives gave her an understanding of identity and land, or perhaps just enough of an understanding to keep longing to understand more. Cultural landscapes become a recurring narrative, like the project in kannauj, India where the people’s heritage is said to be thousands of years of plucking roses that can be turned into perfume. She uses 200 year old camel skin perfume distilling bottles as vessels to a rose composition using the object as a bridge between the ancient practice and the contemporary interpretation. This was also seen in Seville, Spain where the orange orchard’s blanket the Andalusian hills. A composition of oranges harvested from the surrounding land were arranged and photographed in front of age-old terracotta olive oil distilling bottles. Ferdia Goet uses a sensitive approach to her surroundings engaging with objects and landscapes creating sculptural compositions using the materials available and photographing the process. This was the approach to the exhibition ‘Drinking the Nectar’ a collaboration with artist Jennifer Lewandowska. After discussions of altars, shrines, places of worship in nature and devotion Ferdia Goet and Jennifer Lewondawska created an evening of a multi sensorial experience of foraged land — with wild fennel as a symbol of strength and dock seed representing transformation and the cycle of growth and rebirth. Curated by Jennifer Lewandowska and Daneille Mezh exhibited in the gallery space 4cose in London. Ferdia Goet is currently living in Vienna, Austria where she has worked with Katharina Husslein, being invited to Husslein’s ‘artists interventions’ where the shop window in Vienna’s 8th district becomes the exhibition space. Ferdia Goet continues to let her curiosity and love for flowers and landscapes lead her.
Ferdia Goet is an Artist, maker and film photographer. Ferdia’s practice focuses on elements of design through the medium of flowers. Growing up in a mixed cultural background, from an early age she understood the importance of the land, myth and magic. Spending summers travelling to the Anatolian plateau encountering nomadic distant relatives gave her an understanding of identity and land, or perhaps just enough of an understanding to keep longing to understand more. Cultural landscapes become a recurring narrative, like the project in kannauj, India where the people’s heritage is said to be thousands of years of plucking roses that can be turned into perfume. She uses 200 year old camel skin perfume distilling bottles as vessels to a rose composition using the object as a bridge between the ancient practice and the contemporary interpretation. This was also seen in Seville, Spain where the orange orchard’s blanket the Andalusian hills. A composition of oranges harvested from the surrounding land were arranged and photographed in front of age-old terracotta olive oil distilling bottles. Ferdia Goet uses a sensitive approach to her surroundings engaging with objects and landscapes creating sculptural compositions using the materials available and photographing the process. This was the approach to the exhibition ‘Drinking the Nectar’ a collaboration with artist Jennifer Lewandowska. After discussions of altars, shrines, places of worship in nature and devotion Ferdia Goet and Jennifer Lewondawska created an evening of a multi sensorial experience of foraged land — with wild fennel as a symbol of strength and dock seed representing transformation and the cycle of growth and rebirth. Curated by Jennifer Lewandowska and Daneille Mezh exhibited in the gallery space 4cose in London. Ferdia Goet is currently living in Vienna, Austria where she has worked with Katharina Husslein, being invited to Husslein’s ‘artists interventions’ where the shop window in Vienna’s 8th district becomes the exhibition space. Ferdia Goet continues to let her curiosity and love for flowers and landscapes lead her.