Arts Thread

For this installation I was heavily influenced by an extract from 'Consumerism, waste, and re-use in twentieth-century fiction: Legacies of the avant-garde.' (R.Dini, 2016: 2). This extract's exploration of ‘The Dump’ left me pondering the true worth of objects and materials, challenging this notion of "Usefulness” and encouraged me to analyse the absurd meanings that discarded materials can take on when placed in different contexts. Through my graduate show installation, comprising of works titled Vestigial, Scintilla, Augment, Clutter Punnets, and Entropy Montage, I aimed to transform a diverse array of elements into a cohesive expression, forging unexpected connections that evoke curiosity and confusion. I have become committed to an iterative refinement process where I embrace the continuous evolution of my practice, exploring alternative exhibition formats and experimenting with unknown possibilities. I wanted to convey a snapshot in time of my multidimensional practice over the course of this year, showcasing an ecosystem of materials that come together in harmonious chaos. My artistic journey is distilled, expanded, distilled again, and re-expanded revealing calculated entropies that explore the depths of imagination. Central to my practice is the act of gathering, which allows me to observe, collect, and rearrange elements from the world. In expanded painting, this process takes on a unique dimension, granting me the possibility to assemble and reorganise physical colours, mark making, and objects directly into space. I have tried to create an installation that accumulates various materials and found objects. In embracing the poetics of materiality within my work, I aim to inspire others to find beauty in the overlooked and discarded; to think of ways to reimagine possibilities in the mundane and shift the analysis away from limitations to embrace what can be the transformative principle of art.