C O .N F L U E N C E
CONFLUENCE
THE UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA AND TAFE QLD BRISBANE PROUDLY PRESENT CONFLUENCE; A MERGING OF IDEAS AND CREATIVITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS. INCORPORATING PRINT, DIGITAL AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES, TEXTILES AND PAINTING, CONFLUENCE SHOWCASES A SMALL GROUP OF EXCEPTIONAL GRADUATES FROM THE 2017 MID-YEAR GRADUATING GROUP. FEATURING THE WORK OF HOLLY CUTHBERTSON, KRYSTINA GRAY, MARY LETAIN, MICHELLE ANDREWS, AND SIENA HART.
HOLLY CUTHBERTSON  
Holly is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on oil painting. She explores the nuances of memory, nostalgia, connection to place and the liminal spaces of youth.


 
KRYSTINA GRAY
Krystina Gray is a Visionary and figurative artist residing in Brisbane, Australia. She creates her work using traditional media including pencil, acrylic, watercolour and oil and is best known for her striking nudes and brightly painted alternative female portraits. Krystina's practice is strongly influenced by
tattoo culture, visionary and
psychedelic art as well as mythologies, magic and ethereal Imagery.
As an
aspiring tattooist she uses themes and content that reflect these interests and continues to evolve her illustrative style. https://www.instagram.com/kinkie_ink/


 
MARY LETAIN
Focusing on mediums best channeling the use of text and collage, and drawing on personal experience and grievances; Letain explores the multi faceted emotion surrounding her own strength, vulnerability, complexes, and persistence. With influence taken from collective women’s struggle and feminist discourse; Letain attempts to validate her internal monologue with the external environment, while continually searching for a perhaps, unattainable balance. Confessional poetry and consistent symbolism, offset with uneasy callousness and absurdity, reiterate Letain’s struggle with finding and accepting this balance.


 
MICHELLE JAE ANDREWS
Michelle uses the mediums of textile, paper, ceramics and painting to explore her reoccurring themes of the passing of time, cultural shifts and the study of biological and geometrical forms. Her recent solo exhibition Faded Boundaries investigated the migration of culture across the world, symbolised by patterns and motifs. These paintings were covered with one pattern, then partly obliterated and repainted to show changing tastes over time, and the drift of some patterns into many other cultures. The merging of cultures, she believes, will become increasingly relevant in the future. Her work is characterised by precise detail, stemming from early training as a commercial illustrator and display artist. This precision translates into her ability to patiently produce complex Islamic design and mathematically correct origami. Much of her painting, even that which appears casual, will have an underlying geometrical structure.


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SIENA HART
Utilising the language of subversion, Hart explores simple interventions of the everyday through digitally mediated performance and installation. With a focus on outward manifestations of embodied experience, vulnerability, anxiety, and the dialogue between the real and the imagined, Hart invites audiences to challenge the architecture of their own identities, perception, and memory.
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