UNBOUNDED. ARTISTS
Crossing #3, 2018, aluminium, acrylic paint, plywood and pic pipe. Image by Document Photography
|
Sarah FitzgeraldSarah’s interdisciplinary art practice includes painting, sculpture and installations that respond to the conditions of a particular site. She recently completed an MFA at the National art school which examined contemporary site-specific art and the ways in which architecture can be used as the subject and also the ground or medium for art. As such, she looks at buildings and the urban landscape to identify the ways in which we inhabit and construct a particular site. She draws on these observations to identify broader issues of place and identity in contemporary society. Sarah worked as an architect before committing to practicing full time as an artist and her recent artistic practice is particularly influenced by her architectural background.
|
Disembodied Drawing, 2016, two channel video. Image by Document Photography
|
Jan Rae
My drawing practice focuses on how to make sensory, gestural and kinesthetic images through referencing audio stimulii and using experimental drawing techniques, performance and new media. The key elements are movement, musicality and connection. In this video drawing ‘Disembodied Drawing’, I am moving to music using mixed media but the technique has placed my body on the other side of a translucent surface so that only the mark making is seen by the viewer. We see the drawing process in action.
Studies: Master of Art UNSW Art & Design, 2016; Life Drawing Florence, Italy, 1998; Dip.Fine Art Queensland College of Art, 1975 Awards: Waverly Drawing Prize 2016, Dance Art Prize 2005, Byron Art Classic 2010; Mosman Art Prize (popular vote) 2009; Finalist: Noosa Regional Gallery, Drawing Prize 2017,2017; Tim Olsen Drawing Prize 2016; Country Energy Award Lismore Regional Gallery 2019; ArtNest ABC awards for best emerging filmmaker 2007 |
Secure connections, 2015, porcelain, 38 x 38 x 2 cm, and Assembly required, 2015, porcelain, 34 x 42 x 2 cm. Building code, 2017, Terracotta, dimensions variable, Images by Document Photography.
|
Tania Rollond
Intrigued by the possibility of one (or several) things becoming another, and images or objects on the border between legibility and abstraction, I make visual puzzles.
I’m interested in ‘things’, un-nameable objects or ambiguous images that lie outside the mediation of language and culture. They offer a direct experience where meaning is open, and create a momentary pause in this fast-paced world of visual overload. This series of works emerges from a matrix, formed by the outlines of products traced randomly from Bunnings Warehouse catalogues. I paint over this with ink, filling positive or negative spaces with tone, or I build up from it with clay, coiling line into form. This process starts intuitively, but as the work progresses images or objects begin to emerge. In this puzzle-like journey you never know what you will find. Hints of a landscape, an interior, or a still life can be partly teased out. Later, I make drawings on the ceramic forms, or attach wire, to create assemblages suggesting other possible spaces and alternate readings. Through this process, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. I love the idea that the viewer’s interpretation cannot be right or wrong. What you see depends on what you’re looking for, or even who you are. The resulting drawings and ceramics forms are about visual perception. My aim is to capture or even create a feeling of uncertainty, or a situation that is irresolvable. Tania Rollond is a Sydney based artist who makes ceramics and drawings, and often combines the two. She studied design at Curtin University, ceramics at the National Art School, and most recently completed her MFA in drawing at UNSW. Currently a lecturer in Ceramics at NAS, she has been teaching and exhibiting regularly since 2001. Working between representation and abstraction, she makes drawings on (and about) objects to explore questions of recognition and meaning. |
High left foot, palm-press, 2018, Fibreglass screen, eyelets, carabiners, cord, nails.
2.5 x 2.6m. Image by Document Photography. |
Elle Van Uden
Elle van Uden is a current Master of Fine Arts by Research student at the University of New South Wales with an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class 1) at UNSW and was awarded an artist residency at Cité Internationale des Artes, Paris for late-2018 where she will continue her research project.
Elle van Uden’s practice proposes a reimagining of movement through vertical space. She combines an embodied knowledge of rock climbing with material investigation to create sculptural installations that climb the gallery wall. With a variety of materials, planar bodies articulate movement through vertical space, expressing tensions and sequenced points and positions as they relate to the climbing body. |
Image courtesy of the artist.
ART AT NIGHT – EAST SYDNEY THURSDAY 15 MARCH
|
Joanne Makas
Shredding is an investigation into the complexity of how we experience time through a spatial experimentation with drawing. In this performance line becomes a physical presence liberated from the two-dimensional surface.
Joanne Makas is not a performance artist; in her practice she predominately investigates the fundamentals of painting, experimenting beyond its traditional boundaries into three-dimensional space. Interested in how people move around and make sense of their daily rituals and habits Makas makes use of an everyday object found in the home or workplace to question conventional modes of representation. Over a period of two hours blank paper is shredded and the container emptied and scattered on the floor. The act of drawing is realized in the movements of the hand and the activity of the entire body. Through this act Joanne shreds the invisible structures inherent in drawing, and reconfiguring the relation between line and support. 
|
