Honours Painting 2005 | SCA The University of Sydney
Research Proposal
Still Life in both traditional and contemporary art is my main area of interest. My area of investigation is in how still life celebrates the everyday world (through evoking memory or narrative), and also in the way that it has and still provides an alternative or better setup than actually exists. In the Dutch flora still lifes of the 17thC we see painting compositions created that never were actually possibly in the reality of the day. Flowers were painted in impossible arrangements. As flowers came into season and specimens were shipped in they were added to the painting. It is this idea that these works never existed before that interests me and has given new focus to both my art making and historical, critical study. I look to some contemporary models who in my opinion reference historical still life for example Mikala Dwyer, Ricky Swallow, Bill Hammond and Michael Parekowhai. Researching and recreating flora within domestic décor in low art materials, is currently the main focus area for my honours research proposal.
2005
Still Life in both traditional and contemporary art is my main area of interest. My area of investigation is in how still life celebrates the everyday world (through evoking memory or narrative), and also in the way that it has and still provides an alternative or better setup than actually exists. In the Dutch flora still lifes of the 17thC we see painting compositions created that never were actually possibly in the reality of the day. Flowers were painted in impossible arrangements. As flowers came into season and specimens were shipped in they were added to the painting. It is this idea that these works never existed before that interests me and has given new focus to both my art making and historical, critical study. I look to some contemporary models who in my opinion reference historical still life for example Mikala Dwyer, Ricky Swallow, Bill Hammond and Michael Parekowhai. Researching and recreating flora within domestic décor in low art materials, is currently the main focus area for my honours research proposal.
2005
