At the end of a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the ANU School of Art, they assess your final body of work in the SoFA Gallery. You hang the work professionally and everything looks just lovely! Its a horribly nerve wracking and also really rewarding experience. Seeing your work that you have slaved over all [...]
Fellow Collage Artists….
Karel Rovny makes beautiful and amusing collages with a pornographic touch. Laura Breitman creates amazing detailed fabric collages, not quite my taste, but you can’t deny the skill. Kenneth Anbender otherwise know as “eye-music” makes surreal paper collages in many different styles, his nudes are quite interesting. Adrian Kenyon creates amazingly detailed surreal collages [...]
New Artist Statement….
My work explores ideas of masculinity and femininity in relation to myself, what these ideas represent, the differences between them and the dichotomies used to understand them. I feel that I am representing my own masculine and feminine dichotomies, my own struggle to express, but also hide particular qualities of my nature and personality.
I want [...]
Social Suicide – How Mens Suits Should Be
Earlier in the year I was considering working with and adapting mens suits. Inspired by Vivienne Westwood type tailoring, crisp lines, gorgeous fabric, the male dominance and exclusiveness. Social Suicide is a company which warps how mens suits are seen and interpreted. Designers and makers Simon Waterfall and Matt Grey, create suits with their own [...]
Woman Warrior
During my studies, I have been thinking about how woman and men are represented within their gender and in using dichotomies such as weak/strong. I have chosen to analyse an image in which the female character was purposely designed to be strong. I thought this would be interesting to then see if the male characters [...]
Inspiration Websites
I’ve put in a list of websites which i have come across during my study.
Here is some artists and articles on artists i have found interesting:
Linde Ivimey Sculpture
Peter Hobbs Textile Artist
Larry Clark at International Center of Photography
Jean Paul Gaultier: parfum, maquillage, cosmétique. Boutique en ligne
S!X-Cutting Cloth: Contemporary approaches to independent production
S!X-Powerhouse Museum | [...]
Collage
The collages are a selection of writings, drawings, fabrics, and found objects. This bundled confusion of objects represents my concept by grouping together scraps of different roles, attitudes and ideals of sexuality in society. It is made up of fabrics representing masculine and feminine, garments with sexual appeal, advertising images, my own drawings and samples [...]
Love From Japan….
September last year i went on a trip connected with the Australian National University School of Art to Japan. We stayed at the Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto for two and a half weeks during the University’s mid semester break and spent a few days in Tokyo, visiting museums, galleries, temples, shrines, markets, local artists [...]
Tie Photos 2
I took some more photos of my ties on two differnet models, this time a created an enviroment and a context for the tie. I think in these photos, the tie adds to the personality to the scene and creates a distinct dialog.
“Lightweight?” Exhibition, Dunedin.
For the past week I have been in Dunedin, New Zealand, helping set up an exhibition in association with the Dunedin Otago Polytechnic and the Australian National University School of Art. The Exhibition was named “Lightweight?”, which made reference to the weight and size limitations of the art pieces do to travel. Recent graduates, current [...]
