Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Poetic in Space: The Concrete is Too Hard, 2021, acrylic and spray paint on stretched and unstretched canvas
My project investigates the dialogue between paintings, the body and the expanded space of the gallery they all occupy. "The spatiality of installation art translates painting from plane to space and wraps the work around the viewer, thereby eliciting the more bodily and performative type of response." (Ring Peterson 2013). Using installation as a method of presentation, I have investigated the theatrical relationship between the viewer and the painting through the act of encounter within the gallery space. My works achieve this by producing stage-like installations that allow the viewer the option to view the work in a traditional manner – standing from afar – or to be an active participant within the scene where, like the works themselves, they become actors on a stage.
painting on canvas, drawing on paper, ceramics, hot glue and wool
dimensions variable
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.