AUT MVA BLOG
This morning I came across Danae Ripley's work. It captures glimpses of modern life in its transient moments. This work especially stood out to me. Danae Ripley 505 x 410mm oil on canvas 2021 IMG source: https://danaeripley.wordpress.com/#jp-carousel-756 Her ghostly figures and gloomy palettes draw me in but the colours and atmosphere that they have keep… Continue reading Transience and Echoes
This evening I was in a research rabbit hole trying to find more artists like Tira Walsh, and I was reading her piece in Art Collector about her show at Two Rooms in Jan of 2020. At the bottom of the page in the recommended next articles, there was one about Jonny Niesche, and in… Continue reading …and I’m learning new words to describe it
After some soul searching, I have realised that what interests me most deeply about the commute isn't the shapes and the repetition of it, but the emotions of it. Repetition touched on the painfulness of the commute for some and alternatively a comfort for others. The shapes and observation touched on the anxieties of the… Continue reading Bus stations at night feel a certain way…
Following my meeting with Ingrid at 9.30 in the morning, I realised that I indeed had let my theory overtake my practice, and in the excitement of anti-capitalist literature, and as a consequence, I had left my practice in the dust, and through the haze had forgotten entirely what it looked like and what type… Continue reading Yesterday sucked until it didn’t
I've spent the last week mucking around in the print labs trying to find the best way to move forward with my ideas. Screen-printing is where I started, making a yellow and purple image that doesn't hold any art value to me and was more of a technical tool for understanding. i really enjoyed the… Continue reading Play
Yesterday my commute got completely messed up - I only caught two busses that I normally catch and even then they were all wrong. First I got on a bus at a time that I don't normally catch due to how busy it normally is, and it was dead quiet, and absolutely cruised through the… Continue reading The day everything went wrong
Using the animation feature on Procreate, i drew out my shapes, and limited the onion skin to only the one frame id just drawn, so each frame of the animation is a further distortion of the original form. As a result they wobble ! I've called them Air Conditioned Shapes because the wobbly imitates the… Continue reading Wiggles and Wobbles
I'm ditching my family. I found that the rabbit hole of family history and homes wasn't serving my practice but was feeding and fuelling the anxiety that i had that my work wasn't about anything important that it couldn't be important. Now that i have been doing more research and have been unpacking my practice… Continue reading On insecurity and ‘what does it mean’ anxiety
I have been using oils under the lecturers recommendations and I have certainly noticed how it has changed how I'm working. I have been having issues with thinning the paint, so in these works the paint is thicker then id normally work with, but I like the qualities it has given me. As I was… Continue reading red flower, blue thorns.
I really like the idea of "Harvesting" shapes, and the idea of "infected" colour. They both feel very apocalyptic to me and I enjoy that, especially since thats how I feel about the world right now. crit-10_3_21Download These are my typed notes from the critique with Ingrid, James, Hamish, and Tamara on Wednesday 10/3/21. I… Continue reading Post Crit Ponderings
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