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Thank you for your beautiful work to first year Fine Arts student Naomi Segal. New projects underway... @_naomisegal indelible, ephemeral

untitled, 2017 Natural pigments on silk, string Dimensions variable

documentation, 2016-2017 Sketchbooks, drawings on paper, colour photographs, string 16 x 14 x 10 cm

My practice has two mutually resistant interests: documentation and the ephemeral. Documenting my memories through drawing and photography has been always been a source of comfort. The indelible marks and memories have accumulated into a personal archive, giving my life a sense of meaning.The ephemeral, however, is a more recent concern that I’ve considered through naturally-dyed silk. I steam silk with eucalyptus leaves and metal, resulting in delicate marks that slowly, slowly fade in the sun. I used to protect my silk works from sunlight, but something changed in me, and I now enjoy the precariousness of leaving them in exposed spaces. The fading marks are a reminder that I don’t have to render my life on paper for it to be meaningful; I can learn to be content in each fragile moment.For now, the silk works are untitled. In this way, I think they can elude documentation, catalogues and online records. My work, like many things, will barely leave a trace. 

Timba Bridge (Master of Art)

Melting Me, Burning Me (2016) 22 x 22 x 20cm; 22 x 22 x 17cm; 22 x 22 x 5cm Wax and wick, desert sand, ceramic bowl, framed colour photographs.

"A residency at Fowlers Gap, a remote sheep station in far west NSW, inspired a series of sculptures which explore the sense of wonder we have about the fleeting nature of life, here one minute, gone the next, we are ashes to ashes, dust to dust. These melts are a shrine to our robust and delicate, continuous and ephemeral, tellurian and transcendent life cycle. As the body dies, it slowly decays, melts away, gets reabsorbed into the earth; what is this transformation all about, what becomes of the energy and soul that inhabited it? We know our time is short, so can we be more present in the here and now? The work represents our dual nature as earth-bound and corporeal, yet spiritual beings. Out in the vastness of the desert, being swallowed up by the land, it simultaneously acknowledges our significance and total insignificance."

20 July 2017

Robert Hogan I’ve Never Liked the Straight and Narrow Path, 2017 Watercolour on paper  42 x 59.4 cm

My work addresses the concept of the terrain vague, which is an indeterminate or residual space that offers a sense of freedom from the homogeneity of the city. The imprecise limits of these spaces allow for the possibility of expression and alternative activities to flourish beyond the rigidity of constructed and controlled spaces. Drawing upon my experience in subcultures centred around disobedience, these sites only thrive until the intervention of outside forces instil order and render the flows, energies and rhythms as mere artefacts of what the transitory space once was.

06.11-20.11 Nick Santoro (left) 'Reflector lad' Oil and acrylic on traffic reflector Dimensions variable

20.10 - 03.11 Sara Sohrabian 'Chashm-e del (the eye of the heart) #1' 2015 Colour pencil and screen print on Stonehenge paper “Chashm-e del explores a tangible sense of love and emotion. Del which signifies the ‘heart-stomach’ in Farsi, is conceptualised as a container of emotions, desires, compassions, thoughts, and memories, whereas chashm – ‘The eye’ symbolises emotion. Much Persian literature refers to chashm-e del as spiritual insight. The spiritual essence of del is capable of seeing what the physical chashm cannot perceive.

In my art, del is represented by the pure and blameless nude. We enter the world unclothed, before developing the ability to comprehend verbal and written language; we first rely on emotional communication such as crying or laughing. Such nonverbal language, far more expressive than words themselves, becomes the undercurrent of our existence. Within my work, these beliefs are expressed through various tones and colours that are reflective of the beauty and vivaciousness of the free and soulful butterfly. This, combined with Persian poetry in a range of calligraphy styles, becomes a way of highlighting a spectrum of emotional experiences. 

My works are introspective, hybrid and intuitive responses to my dreams and the natural world around. They capture fleeting moments of passion and awe. The nude bodies are only partially revealed, their faces averted, vulnerable and defenseless; they float through space - poetically embodying desires and/or fears, revealing intense emotional struggles through my del.”

06.10 - 19.10.2015 Kate Stodart

'Untitled'

2015

Tree trunk, moss, LED light.