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Fortyfive Downstairs Emerging Artist Award 2021
Artist Statement
. A celebration of colour, shape and form her work seeks to explore the painting in the expanded field and to have a bit of fun while doing it. The desire to make this work arises from a personal struggle of feeling confined by the historic and traditional presentation of the canvas, i.e stretched on stretcher bars and hung on a
wall. This project seeks to explore painting through a more spatial lens with the hope to
subvert traditional boundaries through the presentation and performative aspects of the
Work. By having the work placed on the floor it will encourage movements of the viewer that may not be typically reached through a traditionally presented painting, i.e by having to bend down and/or walking around the work. Through this method of installation, it will transcend the singular, two-dimensional vantage point traditional paintings are typically viewed and interacted with to instead explore the work in the relationship between the body and gallery space.
For tens of thousands of years, the First Peoples of this land have nurtured rich, continuous cultural and artistic practices. Some of the earliest weavers of fibre, land, story, and community.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which I live, learn, create and rest, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nations.
I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all First Nations people reading this.
Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.