Hello, I’m Gökçe Burla Yıldız. I’m a senior student at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of sculpture. This formation, which allowed us to return to the workshop and art environment that we had been away from during the pandemic, was beneficial to me both in terms of artistic and technical possibilities. I think it is a project that enables young artists to come together and express their own art and to gain new experiences in the ongoing production process and to support the production of art. In the project I’m working on, I am influenced by the nature we’re in. In fact, we’re in a cycle where everything connects each other. . Nothing exists on its own, that’s the way it is in art. I would like to thank Dereli Art for giving us the opportunity to express ourselves by caring about our ideas and helping us to bring our works to a wide audience.

Hello I’m Kafakası, now I want to talk a little bit about myself and my project mobility; I was born in Ankara in ‘ 95 and started my art education in high school with graphic design and photography department. This education was so enjoyable that it drove me again to become involved in the Arts in college. I completed my bachelor’s degree in sculpture at Hacettepe University, and when I was thinking of turning to something different, I fulfilled my longing for the mural that I have always loved. I returned to the process of producing sculptures that I could not continue without creating a workshop environment with my old and new workshop friends in Dereli Art fields. By not breaking the line of old and new experiences, I almost eliminate the distance between me and the sculpture by combining the style and character I have created in my wall paintings with the classic and firm stance of the stone.

Hello, I’m Nurgül Gökçen. I graduated from ATSO Fine Arts High School, department of painting. I’ve been going on my art education, which i started in high school, as a senior student at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture. At the same time, I’ve been taking photos and videos. I received education via Erasmus program in 2018-2019 academic year in Carrara, Italy. After my education in Italy, I got interested in marbles more and more. And then I found myself among marbles in DereliArt project. I believe that art has a power of reintegrative. I feel lucky because I’m in this field that supports young artists to improve and generate it. I am inspired by act of nature more on my works. Here, the project that i work on is to get closer and to make people become closer to the nature.

Hi I’m Maze Sürer. I’m the new graduated from Hacettepe University Department of Sculpture. My first meeting with marble was in Carrara, Italy when I received erasmus programme in 18-19 academic year. Generally in my works I create somewhere belong within us and also emotional spaces for me. This project of mine is about our inability to completely separate from various ties, despite the desolate feelings of today’s concepts of individuality and uniqueness. I feel very happy and really lucky to take part in the first steps of this formation under the name of DereliArt, which organization in terms of artistic development in our country and the opportunities created for young artists.

Hello, my name is Ali Bayir. I graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in this interesting period of 2020. I joined the project 3 weeks after the first four artists. I think it is one of the best scenarios for a sculptor to have such a great opportunity in this period when I was just graduating and making career planning. Having entered such a working environment in the field I studied and being able to do it as a job provides a very important development process for both me and every artist who is or will be in the project. Considering that this new formation is taking the first steps, I wanted to reproduce my first digital design, the bust, from marble, with some small touches, feeding on the field of digital design that I worked to become my own professional business. I have combined the traces of my first steps in two different areas into one work. This will be a good start both for me and for this art formation.

Hi, I’m Tolga Çınar. I am a student at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture. My journey with art began with my introduction to graffiti and street art. Later, I started working in the fields of painting and sculpture and entering the production process. I found the chance to carve my first stone in the Sculpture Department of Hacettepe University where I was studying. My production process in the field of art started with questioning the place of my own and my self in this world. This search has brought me closer to nature. I saw that apart from the instinctive connection between nature and man, there is also an environment of chaos between them. An environment of cycle and turmoil that constantly destroy each other and give birth again. The trilogy of nature, human and chaos has become the basic concepts I have nurtured in the production process in the field of art. Dereliart project has been a good tool for me to realize my thoughts on these concepts and my general working ideas.

Hello, I’m Batu Güneş. I graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture. In my education life, I interpreted figurative works through primative language. In this way I started out from the new old master concept, I reflect various concepts to the sculpture by coinciding the primitive and the modern. It is exciting to continue my adventure under the roof of Dereliart, where I can use my style comfortably. My personal criterion is to carry the emotional world to a sculpture and to bring the viewer closer to personal satisfaction. While working on dolamite, it is a great chance to be able to move my production bench, which I maintained with various materials, to a mine, in terms of mastering all processes.