A cut and paste approach to subject matter is observed, images are appropriated and recontextualised from a vast array of pop cultural sources, the underlying narrative is left intentionally hazy if not slightly absurd and surreal
Please welcome Sharne Wolf joining TEAM Art Life as our Senior Brisbane [and all points north] correspondent. For her debut she takes a gander at Natalya Hughes latest show Totem Totem…
Ian Shadwell continues his stroll down through Martin Place and into the precincts around Australia Square – the wealth of first rate art prompts our flâneur to exclaim “Thank you, Mr. Seidler!”
The works take simple human movements, such as shooting a basketball, skateboarding, swinging a golf club, and break down the movements as one would for animation, but instead condense the ‘frames’ onto on image.
Over the last decade or so I’ve been experimenting with this take on abstraction; with the main creative decisions being made over a hot photocopier and in the drawings themselves.