A selection of works:
Top: 'Patches of Life 2004-2014,' A Community Art Project with primary and secondary school children making batik using stamping method and touring exhibitions at Mt Eden Village Centre, Northart Gallery and Franklin Art Centre Community Gallery. This project was kindly funded by Creative Community Auckland.
Bottom: Paintings created during my last year of BVA (Bachelor of Visual Arts) study at Auckland University of Technology including work exhibited at Graduation Exhibition ( AD 2015).
"On the Manner of Addressing Chaos"
In the beginning, there was chaos – the whirling, unpredictable movement of forces, vibrations or oscillations that constituted the universe. Chaos here might not be absolute disorder but rather as deep structure or excess of orders, forms, and forces that could not be differentiated from each other. Then, through chance and randomness, life emerges. Life is movement, a process of becoming, and never static.
These works explore chaos as it relates to the painting process – how a seemingly pictorial chaos is moving toward a form of order over time, as painting responds to contingencies that are continually emerging, morphing and changing during the act of painting and the duration of making. Chaos is the feeling of uncertainty and the idea of the unknown; with savouring certain emotions, such as curiosity, desire, surprise, anxiety, and anticipation. Painting becomes a kind of pursuit, a hunt, engaging with the process to the point where one does not think about how long it is going to take to get there. The constant state of transformation and becoming throughout the painting process, and the excitement of not knowing what to expect as the final image could be one of the great stimulant to life.
Top: 'Patches of Life 2004-2014,' A Community Art Project with primary and secondary school children making batik using stamping method and touring exhibitions at Mt Eden Village Centre, Northart Gallery and Franklin Art Centre Community Gallery. This project was kindly funded by Creative Community Auckland.
Bottom: Paintings created during my last year of BVA (Bachelor of Visual Arts) study at Auckland University of Technology including work exhibited at Graduation Exhibition ( AD 2015).
"On the Manner of Addressing Chaos"
In the beginning, there was chaos – the whirling, unpredictable movement of forces, vibrations or oscillations that constituted the universe. Chaos here might not be absolute disorder but rather as deep structure or excess of orders, forms, and forces that could not be differentiated from each other. Then, through chance and randomness, life emerges. Life is movement, a process of becoming, and never static.
These works explore chaos as it relates to the painting process – how a seemingly pictorial chaos is moving toward a form of order over time, as painting responds to contingencies that are continually emerging, morphing and changing during the act of painting and the duration of making. Chaos is the feeling of uncertainty and the idea of the unknown; with savouring certain emotions, such as curiosity, desire, surprise, anxiety, and anticipation. Painting becomes a kind of pursuit, a hunt, engaging with the process to the point where one does not think about how long it is going to take to get there. The constant state of transformation and becoming throughout the painting process, and the excitement of not knowing what to expect as the final image could be one of the great stimulant to life.
