For images and more information on the following artists go to the websites provided.
The Artists:
Michael McEvoy Artist
https://www.redbubble.com/people/Myartmypainting
From Redbubble and Instagram Biography notes: My art invites you to share my world. One you may enter when you find a forgotten and faded photograph at the back of a drawer. happy days
Richard Claremont
http://www.richardclaremont.com/
Biography notes adapted from his website: Richard Claremont is an Australian artist who was born in 1965 in Sydney. He attended a Steiner School, which placed a great emphasis on creativity and the development of the child. There were lessons about the Norse myths, ancient civilisations and old folk tales. It was a rich environment which developed a love of drawing with crayons and painting in watercolour.
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Doris Salcedo
Untitled
1995
Wood, cement, glass and metal
63 3/4 x 39 3/16 x 14 9/16 in. (162 x 99.5 x 37 cm)
1995
Wood, cement, glass and metal
63 3/4 x 39 3/16 x 14 9/16 in. (162 x 99.5 x 37 cm)
(the following text has been adapted)
Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and
installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means.' - Whitecube.com
Anselm Kiefer
whitecube, 2010, ‘Anselm Kiefer’
(the following text has been adapted from website above as viewed 2009-10)
muscular artistic language, physical materiality and
visual complexity enliven his themes and content with a rich, vibrant tactility
visual complexity enliven his themes and content with a rich, vibrant tactility
Subject-matter ranges over sources as diverse as Teutonic mythology history, alchemy and the nature of belief
Depicted in a bewildering variety of materials
Including oil paint, dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand,
straw and all manner of organic material
By adding found materials to the painted surface of his immense tableaux
He invents a compelling third space between painting and sculpture Series of paintings based around the little-known work
of modernist poet Velimir Chlebnikov (1885-1922).
Balances powerful imagery with acute critical analysis
Anselm Kiefer was born inDonaueschingen , Germany Provence , France MoMA , New York (1987), Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin (1991), The Metropolitan Museum, New York (1998), Royal Academy , London (2001), Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth
Anselm Kiefer was born in
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Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
Andy Goldsworthy
Sculptor
Quotes:
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
I
am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public
context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to
work.
Hossein Valamanesh
DAAO, 2008, ‘Hossein Valamanesh’
www.daao.org.au/main/read/7165 viewed 13 may 2010
DOT PAINTING FOR BEGINNERS 1999
Coloured sands and glory vine leaves on linen,
46 x 92 cm
Hossein Valamanesh combines cultural elements from two countries: his native Iran and Australia
Sculptural and installation-based work relating to memory, cultural dislocation, loss, and the progression of time.
simultaneously strong and subtle
occasionally playful
gentle and poetic resonances.
Hossein Valamanesh graduated from the School of Fine Art Painting in Tehran Australia in 1973, arriving in Perth and travelling to Central Australia for four months, where he worked with Aboriginal children. In 1975, he began further studies in visual arts at the South Australian School of Art and, since graduating, has exhibited frequently in Australia
In 1999, he collaborated with Angela Valamanesh to create the Memorial to the Great Irish Famine, An Gorta Mor, at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
RADOK, STEPHANIE, 1990, ‘Hossien Valamanesh’
CHRIS DRURY
http://www.chrisdrury.co.uk/home.htm
Chris
Drury is a British environmental artist. His body of work includes
ephemeral assemblies of natural materials, in the mode associated with
Andy Goldsworthy, as well as more-permanent landscape art, works on
paper, and indoor installations. Wikipedia
Chris
Drury is a British environmental artist. His body of work includes
ephemeral assemblies of natural materials, in the mode associated with
Andy Goldsworthy, as well as more-permanent landscape art, works on
paper, and indoor installations. Wikipedia
Born: 1948, Colombo, Sri Lanka
CHRIS DRURY BIOGRAPHY – (original text adapted)
My work seeks to make connections between different phenomena in the world specifically between:
- Nature and Culture
- Inner and Outer
- Microcosm and Macrocosm
The past 25 years have been concerned with these connections.
what unites the whole body of work.
I do not have a particular style, nor do I prefer one material or process over another
most appropriate means and material to find, and make explicit, those connections.
I collaborate with scientists and technicians
one exhibition or work outside may look very different to another.
Each work starts from zero and breaks new ground.
Its starting point is the place and/or the situation.
a continuing dialogue with the world, exploring our place in the universe.
STARTING POINTS
An Experience of Landscape
walked and spent time in the so called ‘wild’ places on the planet.
a bedrock of experience to draw inspiration for all aspects of my work.
My first long walk
small interventions in the landscape
a shelter made from materials to hand
a way of exploring how we dwell in the land;
or a cairn built fast as a way of marking a remarkable place at an extraordinary time.
Materials from these places would be placed in the rucksack
and later made into baskets or small bundles.
Works made from these experiences are essentially photographic.
interventions
how to use simple, local materials
give rise to large structures, made cheaply and simply
with a minimum CO2 footprint.
Shelters later became cloud chambers and baskets,
woven architectural structures.
Today, when I walk, I tend to leave these landscapes untouched.
I use photographs, video, maps, earth pigment and satellite images
to make works from the experience, after the event.
The Site
the landscape and ecology, the local culture
The land, the lie of the land and the material of the land will be the primary influence
a work designed to go inside a building.
a collaboration site visits, drawings and dialogue,
the work will evolve
work will be constructed grow and change
and may require a degree of management.
Mushrooms and Text
fungi.
Mushrooms are the great recyclers of our ecosystems.
They break down dead matter back into the soils in which we grow our food.
The mandala pattern of the gills reminds us of the cycles of the universe.
A mushroom can feed you, kill you or cure you.
mushroom spore print at the centre of the ‘Medicine Wheel’ in 1982
a library of these prints as the basis of further works.
in conjunction with hand written text in radiating lines
mirroring the pattern of the gills or flowing out in more chaotic patterns,
I am able to use this juxtaposition of pattern and text to make new connections.
The Body
modern societies
see ourselves as separate from nature
liberty exploit it.
result is that we destroy the very ground of our existence.
it is obvious that we are nature
that systems in our bodies obey the same laws as systems in the universe.
continued to explore this using a number of different media, materials and scales
wave patterns in echocardiograms in works on paper
systems of flow in the body,
notably in the heart,
and similar systems in rivers, glaciers
and weather patterns on the planet. I
using satellite images of storms experienced on the ground.
echo-recordings of the icecap from aircraft and the resulting echo-images
are remarkably similar to echocardiograms
It is my intention to work with this data to make new links.
This is an extract from Chris Drury's blog which I found inspirational and earthy; connections between humans and earth/ land:
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This is an extract from Chris Drury's blog which I found inspirational and earthy; connections between humans and earth/ land:
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Sucker Done dried up itself
This is what a local Geologist has to say about it:
Meanwhile we came across this strange thing on Lake Hattie out in Big Hollow.
This is what a local Geologist has to say about it:
"Yup, them thangs is concretions. But they ain't made outa concrete! Nope, most probable they's from calcium carbonate concentrated in the mud on the bottom of the late Cretaceous ocean. But where's that ocean at? Damned if I know, maybe the sucker done dried itself up!
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