IA3 – INQUIRY PHASE 3 – ART AS ALTERNATE RESEARCH, DEVELOP, ACTIVITIES AND COLLABOARTIVE ART FOCUS Elizabeth Willing is a Brisbane based visual artist and in 2009 she completed her honours in fine arts. She has been awarded funding to pursue new work and professional development opportunities these include: • Australia council art start grant (2012), (2016) • Freedom foundation travelling scholarship (2013) " exploring the sculptural and multisensory potential of food has been the key focus of her practise o Her works include sculpture instillation, performance and participatory dining events that engage audiences through sensory dimensions such as smell, taste and touch o uses food as a material in her artworks the same way others use plaster, canvas or LED lights o She's worked with everything from photographs of Australian Women's Weekly fruit cakes layered into monumental collages to kilograms of marshmallow - made by hand with her mum - that she's moulded into a cushion and placed between two tables o The latest exhibition takes a close look at Australian food culture and what Willing sees as its susceptibility to outside influences, from the time of o colonisation through to contemporary food trends such as foraging
I have decided to be inspired by Elizabeth Willing's work. I really like the colours she has used throughout her work as they provoke feelings of happiness and overall wellbeing. In particular her collage works really inspired me to do my own, the fruit that she used really brought out a nice balance of contrast between natural fruity tones. Below I have made my own collage based on her aesthetic, I have simply found some photos which represented a sense of happiness within the fruit and removed the background of the subject of the image so it would make a nice clean collage effect.
Julie Fragar is an Australian - born artist, painter and educator. She is the recipient of several awards in Australia, this is including the 2017 Ramsey art prize and has some major collections of her works in Art gallery of New South Wales, and Queensland art gallery. • Her art explores the relationships between painterly and personal languages, both biographical and autobiographical. Her paintings are composed as dense agglomerations of fragmented images • Fragar's earlier paintings drew on her own life and environment as subject matter, combining these with an interest In • Her work has been acquired by major collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Queensland Art Gallery and is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery ( Sydney), NKN Gallery (Melbourne),
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and Bruce Heiser Gallery ( Brisbane) Her 2016 painting Goose Chase: All of Us Together Here and Nowhere, Kilgour Prize 2016 finalist and winner of the 2017 Ramsay Art Prize Lipman Kara People's Choice Award, explored the story of Antonio de Fraga, her first paternal ancestor to emigrate to Australia in the 19th century
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Marianna Simnett completed her MA at the Slade school of art in 2013 Her work has been shown in many museums and galleries internationally
What • Her practices include her film instillations, drawings, and sculptures • She is part of the CREATURE exhibition, the exhibition presents three of her most significant film and instillation works; Blood in My Milk, Faint with Light, 2016, and The Needle and the Larynx, 2016 When • Simnett won the Jerwood / FVU award in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Jarmon Award in 2017 • Solo exhibitions include : Kunsthalle Zurich, 2019 • Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019 • FACT Liverpool, 2019 • Frans Hals museum • Haarlem, 2019 • New museum, New York 2018 How • •
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Gained global attention for her visceral and theatrical works, which drew upon conventions of storytelling and folklore to explore the body as a site of transition Work speaks to the relationships we develop with our bodies, shifting between control and violence, phobia, and dysmorphia as they undergo intervention and transformation three major works, Simnett invites audiences to explore fluid bodily states in an increasingly interventionist world. wicked tales and cautionary fables, the psychophysical nature of Simnett’s CREATURE Why
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Divergent thinking Activities – think of an object… A water bottle – list in 1 minute how many ways you could use it. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Drinking Using it to stretch your muscles as a roller Wasp trap Smack someone with it Terrarium Egg yolk sucker Bottle top bag seal Piggy bank Watering containers Hanging basket Pencil case Wind spiral mobile Jewellery stand Hanging bottle garden Food storage Watering can Bottle scoop
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Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton : CHORUS commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority WTC Cortlandt Station New York, NY Hans Cogne, Typographic Design Mayer of Munich, Fabrication
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The artist Ann Hamilton combines the ephemeral presence of time with the material tactility for which she is best known to create a new large-scale instillation of Wade Thompson Drill Hall Event of a thread references the buildings architecture as well as the individual encounters and congregational gatherings that have animated its rich social history Work draws together readings, sounds and live events within a field of swings that together invite visitors to connect to the action of each other and the work itself. --> illuminating the experience of the singular collective body and the relationship between the animal and the human Address of readers to the pigeons shifts each day, when a vocalist on the drill hall's balcony serenades their release to flight
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Born in Lima, Ohio in 1956 Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large scale, multi-media installations. her installations immerse viewers in a poetic at once visceral and literary Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 1985
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Born in Paris in 1953, Sophie Calle is the daughter of oncologist and collector Robert Calle and book critic and press attaché Monique Findler. Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. • Recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. • photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing. • taught as a professor of film and photography at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She has lectured at the University of California, San Diego in the Visual Arts Department.
COLLABORATIVE SCHOOL PROJECT
IA3 COLLOBARTIVE ART PROJECT Skateboards inspired by music artists 1. How have you implemented alternate ideas and representations to communicate concept, context and an evolved focus? (Experimenting) We have decided to with alternate surfaces, such as skateboards and wood from trees, whilst also incorporating different materials which will create an overall alternate effect to the piece. Some of these materials may be acrylic paint, spray paint, wood, and lyrics on paper. 1. Have you applied literacy skills to articulate concept and focus (Artist Statement) For this collaborated task, in which displays art as alternate, personal context and meaning has been considered and incorporated through the ideal phases in order to come up with a final solution. As this piece was in collaboration, we decided to work together as we appear to have similar taste within our main focus of this assessment, which is music artists. Our main idea for this assessment is to incorporate music artists covers on alternate materials which capture the creative sense in which music explores. All music artists chosen capture both our personal favourites in which we have a strong connection to. Use of colour and symbolism will play a large role in piecing together our final piece. The use of symbols will help for the audience to capture their own personal meaning behind the piece, whilst also creating an idea as to which artist we r displaying. By working with different canvases, such as skateboards and wood, this helps to portray the creative culture vibe in which music portrays.
3. Have you analysed and interpreted alternate visual language and expression in artworks to explore viewpoints and a contemporary context (Case Studies) The artist Joe Dolack A designer and artist originally from Seattle and his portraits are meant to capture the subjects personality while the unique background provides a stage for the images to pop off the canvas. Having found this Joe has recently tried a new direction, looking to demonstrate a more graphic/pop art approach, greatly influenced by his graphic design beginnings. https://www.saatchiart.com/joedolack1 His works also include pray painting Contrast of colour for example this piece of asap rocky, he has used black and white texture against vibrant colourful background
Lexi Bruno Art Acrylic Print of an original painting depicting American rapper, singer, and songwriter, Tyler, The Creator, along with his each of his works. She is from New Jersey Her artwork is inspired by various music artists and explores the perspective of colour and proportion Her assortment of the visual collage inspires the viewer of his various albums Her layering of flowers portray another layer underneath which sets a mood of uplifting and combines the piece together nicely
5. Have you evaluated art practises, tradiitons, cultures, theories to inform alternate approaches (link your case studies to your own work) Music culture is what we are inspired by for this piece, which informs alternate approaches. From the case studies of our chosen artists in which help to portray our ideas, this will help link all our ideas together, whilst giving a background as to what our inspiration is. •
6. Have you justified a new viewpoint supported by knowledge gained through combined self-directed inquiry (development of your own work) We have justified a viewpoint in which combines the importance of music culture and the knowledge of colour experimentation in the self directed inquiry. We have enabled the skills and other factors in which has given us the ability to understand the underlying messages of music culture and the ability to combine self directed skills. Some of these skills were the ability to make collages to convey meanings in which describe underlying meaning of music. Some of these underlying meanings came from symbolism which 7. Have you experimented with familiar and alternate media and ideas relevant to the focus and informed by research of contemporary practise? 8. Have you created meaning through knowledge and understanding of materials, techniques, technologies and art processes to support alternate approaches (message/ intent behind the artwork based on exploration of ideas) In order to create meaning through knowledge and understating of materials, we decided to use techniques such as acrylic paint, spray paint, timber, and lyrics on paper in which are material that could easily portray the symbols in which we decide to use which replicate with them chosen artists. By also using surfaces such as wood and skateboards, this also links well with the music background with an alternate type of feeling through use of colour and symbols. As music is also expressed to alternate in which artists have their own way in
expressing personal thoughts and feelings, and artists particularly choose to use music artists as inspiration within their pieces. 9. Have you realised a body of work through an inquiry to communicate artistic purpose and meaning to audiences? We have realised that the body of work through an inquiry to communicate purpose and meaning towards audiences. We will be putting numerous materials and ideas together to communicate meaning of music artists and their underlying meanings through symbolism for example Tyler the creator, in his album cherry bomb we see the symbolism of the cherry, so this could be used as a metaphor as a pattern on one of our skateboards to exemplify the importance of symbolism in such a context. Also, through the body of work other elements that will also be incorporated in order to convey purpose will be the process of the lyrics of each artists used possibly as a backdrop of each skateboard, these lyrics may either be ripped up or simply glued down with PVA glue. Having the main theme of symbolism throughout each of the works enables the viewer to put two and two together weather to question what the artists is portraying or weather they understand.