Rokka Nixi by Corrina Eastwood for Gypsy Maker 5
The Rokka Nixi installation is comprised of a body of work that includes a photographic essay charting the conceptual journal of the installation, small sculptural pieces and larger sculptures produced in response to the visual archiving that the photographic essay has evoked. Art based self-reflexivity and explorations of Romani identity, ethnicity, culture and trans and inter-generational trauma, have been the focus of Corrina’s art practice for some time. Much of her art-based processing of grief, trauma, ongoing explorations of self, and the making of meaning, remains wordless. Corrina Eastwood’s work is informed by personal experiences of marginalisation and oppression felt at the intersect of being both GRT (Gypsy Romani Traveller) and a woman, to develop an interest in the privileging of marginalised voices and the challenging of social disparities and normative power, through art, activism and education. Eastwood’s practice spans painting, film making and more recently sculptural forms incorporating found objects.
1. Corrina Eastwood, Brazen Chavi (from Pedestal project), 2016-22. Photographer Mia Hawk
2. Corrina Eastwood, Untitled 1-5 (from Pedestal project), 2016-2022. Photo essay
3. Corrina Eastwood, Sitting Up 1-13, 2022. Photo essay
4. Corrina Eastwood, Yog 1 to 3, 2022. Photographic prints
5. Corrina Eastwood, Ratti, 2019. Mixed media
6. Corrina Eastwood, Atch-on, 2019 (detail). Mixed media
7. Corrina Eastwood, Raklis Tann, 2019. Mixed media
8. Corrina Eastwood, Davas, 2022. Mixed media
9. Corrina Eastwood, Mandi, 2019. Mixed media
10. Corrina Eastwood, Kakka Rokka Nixi, 2022. Mixed media
11. Corrina Eastwood, Ladged up, 2022. Mixed media
12. Corrina Eastwood, Poshrat (with Amy-Lee), 2022. Mixed media