Project 1 - Presentation
Close to Home: Territory childhood
These six images below are what I presented in class, I went on to refine these a little more and add in bleed.
Artist Statement - Close to Home publication
Motherhood, childhood, nostalgia; these are key themes for me as an artist. Close to Home became a quest to find a visual language that could convey something of what it is to be a small child growing up in the Top End. This is particularly apt for me as we are planning a move to Queensland.
These experimental works are drawings combined with abstract gouache landscapes and traces of the original photographic image. This expands upon previous work that played with layering on tracing paper.
Final Works:
Artist Statement - DVA exhibition
Motherhood, childhood, nostalgia; these are key themes for me as an artist. Close to Home became a quest to find a visual language that could convey something of what it is to be a small child growing up in the Top End. This is particularly apt for me as we are planning a move to Queensland.
These works were created in response to an assignment brief for my CDU Creative Studio class. We were commissioned by Split/Shift Press to created a visual essay for a small Risograph publication titled ‘Close to Home 2022’. Using images sourced from my own phone, and two friends’ with kids the same age, my approach was to draw the image in pencil, and combine digitally with abstract gouache landscapes along with faint traces of the original photographic image.
Risograph printing, or riso, is a method of printing on a machine that is much like a photocopier but produces an aesthetic that is closer to screen printing with vivid, sometimes fluorescent inks. It is known and loved for the quirks and imperfections that result from spot colour printing such as smudging and imperfect registration. Using vegetable based inks it is an environmentally friendly and sustainable print process.