SARAH J NEWALL
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Painting 2003 | UNSW

Research Proposal
The need to make sense of the world drives us to find a better abstraction.  Abstractions of everyday culture are being played out all the time.  As a community we are bombarded with abstracted reality in all forms of mediated imagery.  We are feed it, we consume it, we create it, and we are created by it.  It has become such a part of everyday culture that we have domesticated it by calling it ‘Wallpaper’.  Abstractions being a representation of reality provide an opportunity to experience the fantastic to fantasise and imagine from a safe distance (an idea first introduced by Aristotle).  Abstraction therefore provides something that life can not do, it can objectify and universalise experience and reconnect back with humanity.  Abstraction then is a singular event when disparate objects and concepts come together to form a simplified complete whole.  Abstraction then becomes central to cognition.
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Painting 2002 | UNSW

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  • home
    • about / contact
  • solo shows
    • Fashist Winter 2018
    • Fashist Summer 2017
    • Fashist Winter 2016
    • Girlshed III 2015
    • Girlshed 2014
    • Faux Harp 2011
    • Still still life 2009
    • Domesticating orange 2007
    • Abstraction and Representation
  • Group Shows
    • Care Project
    • Art directions
    • Couplings May 2018
    • Grey Area
    • Girl Shed II 2014
    • Extinct Extant
    • PhD painting
    • lucky 7
    • honours painting
    • Jenny Bit Award
    • undergrad painting
    • Insidious
    • Flowers
    • Intimate Affair 2003
    • paintings / cartoons
    • Phatspace anniversary show
  • curated shows
    • Inter-sections
    • Painting with Vinyl
  • arts residences