Valerie Auersperg (Valerism) - Illustrator, Painter
09/27/22 • 63 min
Valerie Auersperg, also known as Valerism and I Am Valerism , is an Austrian artist living in New Zealand. She creates acrylic paintings and digital drawings depicting pop-surreal scenes in a colourful, dream-like manner. Her work brings a smile and sense of wonder to the viewer.
Valerie explores the world inside and around herself, pairing the expected with the unusual. She focuses on themes such as memory (real and perceived), pop culture and mental health. Her work is a whimsical commentary on how our inner journeys, moods and situations are something that connects us.
Valerie is a self-taught artist who has worked in fashion, animation and advertising. Art has always been her passion and side hustle and finally she took the leap to become a full-time artist in 2020.
We have a really fun insightful chat about how Valerie processes her pregnancy through her work, the potentials of NFTs, the reasons why some of her characters are masked and how she uses symbolism and narratives to express herself. Like her work, this episode will make you smile I'm sure. Enjoy!
https://www.valerism.com/
About your host: https://www.instagram.com/creative_matters/
Mandy Jakich is the Founder and CEO of Creative Matters, an award winning business providing creative, educational opportunities to enrich the lives of our children, educators, artists and community. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/
Mandy is a practising artist www.amandajakich.co.nz and a teacher, with more than 30 years experience teaching in various capacities at primary and intermediate schools across Auckland NZ and as an art educator at Auckland Art Gallery.
As well as this podcast, Creative Matters facilitate Professional Development visual arts courses for primary teachers, visual art creative workshops and experiences for children and
public art projects and creative opportunities in the community.
Ngā mihi, thanks for listening!
Follow us on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/creativematterspodcast/
Learn more about Mandy and the podcast
https://www.creativematters.co.nz/podcast
See images of each guests work and relevant links on our blog https://www.creativematters.co.nz/blog
Valerie Auersperg, also known as Valerism and I Am Valerism , is an Austrian artist living in New Zealand. She creates acrylic paintings and digital drawings depicting pop-surreal scenes in a colourful, dream-like manner. Her work brings a smile and sense of wonder to the viewer.
Valerie explores the world inside and around herself, pairing the expected with the unusual. She focuses on themes such as memory (real and perceived), pop culture and mental health. Her work is a whimsical commentary on how our inner journeys, moods and situations are something that connects us.
Valerie is a self-taught artist who has worked in fashion, animation and advertising. Art has always been her passion and side hustle and finally she took the leap to become a full-time artist in 2020.
We have a really fun insightful chat about how Valerie processes her pregnancy through her work, the potentials of NFTs, the reasons why some of her characters are masked and how she uses symbolism and narratives to express herself. Like her work, this episode will make you smile I'm sure. Enjoy!
https://www.valerism.com/
About your host: https://www.instagram.com/creative_matters/
Mandy Jakich is the Founder and CEO of Creative Matters, an award winning business providing creative, educational opportunities to enrich the lives of our children, educators, artists and community. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/
Mandy is a practising artist www.amandajakich.co.nz and a teacher, with more than 30 years experience teaching in various capacities at primary and intermediate schools across Auckland NZ and as an art educator at Auckland Art Gallery.
As well as this podcast, Creative Matters facilitate Professional Development visual arts courses for primary teachers, visual art creative workshops and experiences for children and
public art projects and creative opportunities in the community.
Ngā mihi, thanks for listening!
Follow us on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/creativematterspodcast/
Learn more about Mandy and the podcast
https://www.creativematters.co.nz/podcast
See images of each guests work and relevant links on our blog https://www.creativematters.co.nz/blog
Previous Episode
Josh Lancaster - Painter
Welcome to Episode 56. This week I'm talking to Josh Lancaster. Josh paints the places and buildings New Zealanders know and love.
"I do this by trying to capture the essence of a familiar place" says Josh " be it someone’s dairy, beach, view, flat, island, road, takeaway shop, family bach or simply just the memory of one. These are the places we cherish - the iconic moments that make up who we are. They are an agent for fond memories, stories, feelings. Collectively we love these places for what they remind us of – they connect us."
In 2015 Josh made the decision to leave a highly successful career in advertising to follow his dream of being an artist and is now a full time painter living in the Hawkes Bay with his 3 sons Lennox, Archie and Spike.
We have a great (long!) chat about the intricacies of a creative career in advertising, how he made the challenging shift to becoming a full time artist, the NZ artists who inspire him, his connection to places, buildings, text and branding and why he doesn't like to add people to his paintings. https://www.facebook.com/joshlancasterpaintings
About your host: https://www.instagram.com/creative_matters/
Mandy Jakich is the Founder and CEO of Creative Matters, an award winning business providing creative, educational opportunities to enrich the lives of our children, educators, artists and community. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/
She is a practising artist www.amandajakich.co.nz and a teacher, with more than 30 years teaching in various capacities at primary and intermediate schools across Auckland NZ and as an art educator at Auckland Art Gallery.
As well as this podcast, Creative Matters facilitate Professional Development visual arts courses for primary teachers, visual art creative workshops and experiences for children and
public art projects and creative opportunities in the community.
Ngā mihi, thanks for listening!
Follow us on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/creativematterspodcast/
Learn more about Mandy and the podcast
https://www.creativematters.co.nz/podcast
See images of each guests work and relevant links on our blog https://www.creativematters.co.nz/blog
Next Episode
Elliot Collins - Interdisciplinary Artist
Elliot is a text based artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, currently living in Taranaki, who works in an interdisciplinary way. He incorporates painting, language, photography, installation and sculpture to discuss ideas of time, memory and ways we interpret our environment.
Elliot is interested in the art that can inform our lives and can be used as a filter or divining tool to see the world we inhabit with greater clarity and purpose.
I so enjoyed meeting Elliot and chatting to him in my studio. We discuss his amazing art career of nearly 20 years, how he works and connects ideas as an interdisciplinary artist, how he comes up with the words for his paintings and what they mean to him and his thoughts on exhibiting and selling his work.
http://www.elliotcollins.com/
https://www.instagram.com/the_elliot_collins/
About your host: https://www.instagram.com/creative_matters/
Mandy Jakich is the Founder and CEO of Creative Matters, an award winning business providing creative, educational opportunities to enrich the lives of our children, educators, artists and community. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/
Mandy is a practising artist www.amandajakich.co.nz and a teacher, with more than 30 years experience teaching in various capacities at primary and intermediate schools across Auckland NZ and as an art educator at Auckland Art Gallery.
As well as this podcast, Creative Matters facilitate Professional Development visual arts courses for primary teachers, visual art creative workshops and experiences for children and
public art projects and creative opportunities in the community.
Ngā mihi, thanks for listening!
Follow us on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/creativematterspodcast/
Learn more about Mandy and the podcast
https://www.creativematters.co.nz/podcast
See images of each guests work and relevant links on our blog https://www.creativematters.co.nz/blog
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/creative-matters-328631/valerie-auersperg-valerism-illustrator-painter-47948646"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to valerie auersperg (valerism) - illustrator, painter on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy