About my artworks (2008 and 2009)

My work and (B.Tech) paper follows from my work from last year (Diploma III, 2008). My work from last year generally spoke of femininity. I explored post abuse and expressed aspects of how I feel as a woman now. I explored all the materials that are typically feminine. I incorporated stereotypical feminine objects such as lace and corsets in my work. I also dealt with the concept of layering. Layering from the past to the present and how the past seeps through the surface. Staining is used as a metaphor that can never be removed as a mark from the past. My work last year was mainly the use of collage, silkscreen, paper making and porcelain.

This all led me to the concept of juxtaposing beauty with ugliness. I found at the end of last year, I started to produce and find objects that created a dialog of beauty and ugliness. Although the theory of what is beautiful and what is ugly is very subjective. I am researching the juxtaposition of beauty and ugliness in my B.Tech paper, to find out my own definition of what beauty and ugliness is. This will give knowledge to my practical in terms of images.

The artists that I am writing about in my B.Tech paper are Penny Siopis, Fiona Kinsella and Leora Farber. These are the artists of whom I have seen the juxtaposition of beauty and ugliness in their works.