VCA Grad Show
Victorian College of the Arts
9 - 15 December 2021
I am interested in the translation of images through different methods of transposition to question the manufactured ‘image’. Through paint, I manipulate images to create ambiguous and seemingly illogical compositions. Each mediation acts to destroy, recontextualise and then create curiosity about the image’s construction.
The intensely saturated colours create a saccharine filter that masks the underlying images and questions the artificial characteristics of images. Drawing on images from personal archives and youth fan culture, my practice plays with sincerity and kitsch. I look to investigate the obsessive nature of fandoms and my disconnection from my own cultural heritage..
Installation view. Documentation by Aaron Christopher Rees.
'March 15, 2015' 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Documentation by Panisa Ongwat.
'Mummy, where the hell have you been loca?' 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Documentation by Panisa Ongwat.
'Obsessed For Men' 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Documentation by Panisa Ongwat.
'Our Moment' 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Documentation by Panisa Ongwat.
'This is the skin of a killer, Mummy' 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Documentation by Panisa Ongwat.