about
Quilos and the Windmill (Linda Khatir &
Our collaborative practice explores relations between spaces: architectural, landscape, formal, informal, actual and imaginal.
We draw from the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and writing, and as each new work develops, it begins to unravel fixed ideas on illusion and reality, multiplicity and originality.
A new work often begins as a small autonomous piece, but may also be the starting point for something more expansive, and the physical union of art with space and place - means that this kind of work may be read in relation to specific historic and cultural events, whilst also hinting at more personal memories and feelings that are traversed in the making.
Quilos and the Windmill are creative explorers. Mutata is our companion; unseen and unheard, she is always at work in our work. She is the vehicle and space of our thoughts.
Our collaborative practice explores relations between spaces: architectural, landscape, formal, informal, actual and imaginal.
We draw from the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and writing, and as each new work develops, it begins to unravel fixed ideas on illusion and reality, multiplicity and originality.
A new work often begins as a small autonomous piece, but may also be the starting point for something more expansive, and the physical union of art with space and place - means that this kind of work may be read in relation to specific historic and cultural events, whilst also hinting at more personal memories and feelings that are traversed in the making.
Quilos and the Windmill are creative explorers. Mutata is our companion; unseen and unheard, she is always at work in our work. She is the vehicle and space of our thoughts.
Biography
In 2006 the two artists met as PhD researchers (at Bath School of Art & Design, UK) and began their collaboration soon after gaining their doctorates. In 2011, during their first joint residency in the USA, they developed the signature grey gingham motif that grounds most of their imagery. Since then they have worked together as artists, researchers and educators, participating in exhibitions, conferences and residencies in the UK and abroad, alongside developing courses and workshops in universities, museums and art centres. Today, Michele and Linda continue their creative collaboration as Quilos and the Windmill.
Quilos and the Windmill -
| 2021 | Place:Home", Space place Practice (online publication) |
| 2020 | The Old Soapworks Bristol UK - ‘Place:Soapworks’ |
| 2019 | Appleton Box, Lisbon Portugal ‘Loss & Lucidity’ |
| Fabrica da Braca, Lisbon Portugal ‘Loss & Lucidity’ | |
| Fringe Arts Bath UK - the Swedish quilt project/‘This Womans Work’ | |
| 2018 | Drawing Projects Trowbridge UK - ‘Stockpile’ |
| Santora Space, Santa Ana USA - ‘Loss & Lucidity’ | |
| 2017 | The Action Factory/Bath Spa University UK - ‘Open Plan’ |
| Trowbridge Arts UK - the Box Project and ‘Library of Pilgrimages’ (SPP) | |
| 2016 | Mars Gallery Chicago USA - ‘Bad Wilma’ with Peter Mars |
| Mars Gallery Chicago USA - Artists in residence | |
| Trowbridge Arts UK - ‘Quilt red and blue’ | |
| Aguelimuseet Sweden - ‘Quilt blue and white’ | |
| Aguelimuseet Sweden - Quilos and the Windmill in conversation | |
| Gaia gallery Seoul S. Korea - ‘Phoebus and the Crow’ | |
| 2015 | Wells Art contemporary UK - ‘Crow, a working wall’ |
| Drawing Projects UK - ‘Bad Wilma’ | |
| Zmart Gallery Cyprus - ‘Phoebus and the Crow’ | |
| Trowbridge Arts UK - ‘Crow’ | |
| University of Aberystwith UK - ‘Something of Place’ (SPP) | |
| 2014 | 44AD Bath UK - ‘Quilos and the Windmill on Mars’ |
| Mars Gallery Chicago USA - ‘Quilos and the Windmill with Peter Mars’ | |
| Salisbury Art Centre UK - ‘Lost’ | |
| Corsham Court Wiltshire UK - ‘Becoming American’ | |
| 2013 | Stroud Museum UK - ‘Something of place’ |
| 44AD Bath UK, Quilos and the Windmill - ‘the prospector’ | |
| George Buehr Gallery Michigan USA - ‘mule machine’ | |
| Ox-bow Michigan USA - Artists in residence | |
| University of Groningen Netherlands - ‘little elegy’ | |
| Stroud Festival UK - Museum in the Park (SPP) | |
| 2012 | The Skittle gallery, Corsham Court UK - ‘Something of place’ (SPP) |
| The American Museum in Britain UK - Migrations (Studio XYZ) | |
| Worcester City Museum UK - ‘Site Writing’ (artists in residence) | |
| University of Derby UK - ‘Affective Landscapes’ | |
| The Architectural Institute Chicago USA - ‘It came from the lagoon’ | |
| 2011 | The George Buehr Gallery, Michigan USA - ‘Living Smart in Bear Country’ |
| Ox-bow Michigan USA - Artists in residence | |
| Sion Hill gallery, Bath school of Art & Design UK - Q&W in Conversation |
Instagram: @quilosandthewindmill
Research group Space Place Practice: www.spaceplacepractice.com
quilos and the windmill always value making connections so if you would like to contact us or arrange a studio visit just email: studio@quilosandthewindmill.com