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Faracy Moon Grouse is an artist based in Edinburgh. Originally from Minneapolis, Faracy arrived in Scotland by way of a decade in Spain and England. Her parents ran a Native American artefacts business, and she grew up surrounded by beadwork, buffalo hide, and art produced on Indian reservations. She frequently assisted her parents with both the restoration of antiques and the creation of replicas, and her paintings today show clear influences of Native American art, in particular that of the Pacific Northwest. She has been working as a professional artist since the age of 5.
Faracy also draws inspiration from a lifelong interest in Eastern European culture and her Ukrainian and Lithuanian heritage. Many of her paintings recall the icons of the Orthodox church. However, her subjects come from a range of cultures. She is as likely to paint a figure from Celtic, Norse or Japanese mythology as she is to paint an Islamic or Christian saint. Even then, these saints tend to come from the peripheries, with her interest drawn by the more unusual and lesser known figures from religious traditions.
Her work is bold, surreal and feminine, weaving together organic forms with illuminated colour. Sometimes her work is dark; at other times, light and playful.
Faracy has produced performance pieces such as the candlelit improvised choral work Spark, and she has also exhibited a series of conceptual sound sculptures played by the sun, earth, water and air. She frequently embodies deities as a form of performance ritual.
In 2017, Faracy founded the art collective My Mother is an Artist, celebrating women with children in the arts. She also is one of the three founding members of the Seasons of the Witch Arts Collective along with Karen Strang and Julia Jeffrey.
Her upcoming plans include bringing Seasons of the Witch to America and starting work on a temple of the divine feminine in rural Lithuania.
Art
2018
Seasons of the Witch: Rites of Spring
opens April 27th
2017
The Art of Divine Inspiration
White Space Gallery, Edinburgh, November 2017
Seasons of the Witch: Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone
Glasgow Theosophical Society, December 2017
Front Room Arts Salon, Marcelle House Studio October 2017
My Mother is an Artist
Founder and exhibitor June-July 2017
A group exhibition featuring visual art, written works and performances from artists who are mothers from across Scotland.
Various exhibitions, 2015
Faracy exhibited in 2015 at Drury Street Glasgow, Edinburgh Palette, Stick Factory and Space Artworks.
Spark, 2013-2015
In this audio-visual piece, Faracy conducts an audience who are invited to perform improvised choral singing. The audience hold candles in a dark environment. Spark debuted at St Wulfran’s, a 1000-year old church on the south coast of England, and was most recently performed at Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival.
The Open Garden, 2009
Produced as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe, this exhibition used an outdoor space in Stanmer Park to display a range of artworks, from sonic objects to paintings. The viewer walks through a path in the woods where they see these objects hanging from the trees. This exhibition was part of a residency at the Nourish Community Garden in Stanmer Park.
Read more about the Open Garden
An Unplugged Moment, 2009
In this analogue sound installation, Faracy created elemental instruments played by the earth, sun, air and water, creating a space away from the networked society. The installation formed part of Faracy’s MA Creative Media dissertation, in which she explored the place of ephemeral analogue artifacts in a digital world.
Outside In, 2009
Faracy’s paintings were featured in the 2009 Outside In exhibition at Pallant House, Chichester.
Writing
Grandma and Grandpa’s House
Faracy’s short story Grandma and Grandpaʼs House was shortlisted for the 2013 Asham Award.
Mujer la Machina: an exegesis for iPod created music
in What Would Brian Eno Do?: Sonic Media in New Times (forthcoming)
Fado in English
in City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal, Decay (Springer, 2012)
Becoming Mireilla: a virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar
in After Avatars, Trolls and Puppets: Community 2.0 and the Quest for Authenticity (Oxford: Chandos, 2011)
Crystal Twines
A self-published collection of poetry from 2007 which formed part of a performance piece of the same name.
Other
Other poetry and childhood vignettes have been featured in the online arts journal Synchronized Chaos.
Film
Seeing Voices (2010)
This short documentary examines the lives of four women who have experienced sonic discrimination.
Finding the sea: the heteronymical tale of Madelaine Silva
A work in progress.
Music
Faracy writes and performs music with her husband Nick.
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