Artist Talk

Mawrgan Shaw is a visual artist and animator based in Toronto, Canada, originally from Melbourne, Australia, who has a BA in Media & Communications and a Masters in Digital Film. Mawrgan’s art is inspired by our sense of self and the intersection with our physical reality, and how we move through and make meaning in the world. Mawrgan creates 2D frame-by-frame animation traditionally using mixed media: ink, marker, charcoal and watercolour, and digitally to explore texture and feel. Recently, Mawrgan has had her animated work featured in festivals in Canada, the United States, South Korea, and China, and has upcoming programming in Germany and Australia.

Maka Kiladze is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural manager, with experience in visual and performance arts. Currently, she is a founder and artistic director of Circe – Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia.

As an artist, Maka works in different mediums. She participated in various group exhibitions (Art&Freedom/Civil Rights at the times of Crisis, “Future Memory” Garikula, “Tbilisi Perspective” Hamburg, “Who is that I, who can say I” Silk Museum, “Multifunctional Materials”..) and had solo exhibitions –  WoMan in the framework of 3rd Tbilisi Triennial, Always Aleph in Warehouse Gallery.

Maka also creates and directs short experimental film productions (Be Circled, RED SUN, Brain Bank, Magicians of the Black Sea, Meeting with Androgen), that have been shown in different international experimental film festivals.

Currently, along with her artistic practices and managing of Circe Platform, Maka is working to implement a new experimental social project ‘My Rooftop’ in partnership with Tbilisi Architecture Biennial and Tbilisi City hall.