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Essay – Possibilities Await in Synthesis: Dismantling Modes of Interpretation to Maximise Imaginative Potential within Sculpture
Essay by Jade Cargill for Contextualising Practice The topic of this essay and my art is imagination. Within a world that prescribes narratives and frameworks to understand ourselves that lack depth, openness and personal connection, how can we create art read more …
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Essay – The Knight of Malta: How the unconscious informs the creation of abstract painting
Essay by Ella Simpson for Contextualising Practice Every work of art is a child of its time, while often it is the parent of our emotions -Kandinsky (1911:9) Writing about the creative process of making art is difficult – specifically, read more …
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Essay – Abortion and Queerness: the politics of excavating the closet through confessional performance practice
Essay by Sylva Storm for Contextualising Practice Content Warning: this essay discusses abortion, reproductive rights and queer trauma and contains images of scarification RAW: Nobody who loved me saw it happen (2019 – 2024) (Figure1, 2) is a performance documented read more …
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Essay – Animality and Autism: Honouring Shared Experiences of Otherness
Essay by Grace Rokesky for Contextualising Practice ‘Appearance and Behavioral Observations: Throughout sessions, Grace presented tidy and well-groomed. She had short stature, appeared to have a healthy BMI, and mobilised independently. Grace was reliably polite, friendly and cooperative. Grace initially read more …
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Essay – Automatic drawing and spontaneity in motion: an exercise in trusting the process
Essay by Emily Song for Contextualising Practice Introduction The tendency to overly control and calculate the result of an artwork during the process of making is something that I have relied heavily on in the past, and is a habit read more …
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Essay – Becoming Nomadic
Essay by Timothy Walters for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge that I live, work and study on the unceded lands of the Bunurong, Woi Wurrung/Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, read more …
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Essay – Burnt Out: unlearning perfection through meditative crafting
Essay by Anna Kouvelas for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgment I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to Elders read more …
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Essay – Ecological Obituaries: Mourning the More-than-Human
Essay By Holly Clark-Milligan for Contextualising Practice Acknowledgement I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, Traditional Custodians of the land in Naarm (Melbourne) and wish to also acknowledge the palawa-pakana people, Traditional Custodians of lutruwita read more …
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Essay – Encountering Illness Narratives through Contemporary Practice
Essay by Eugenie Gullifer-Laurie for Contextualising Practice Pain To experience ineffable pain, when it has no identifiable source and no external mark or visible causality, is almost like having hallucinated it. Pain, Elaine Scarry argues, is a form of suffering read more …
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Essay – Fragmented Identities: critiquing societal pressures and conformity within the diasporic experience through creative practice
Essay by Sahla Safia Arundati for Contextualising Practice In a globalised world, art can powerfully critique societal pressures of conformity and the experience of diaspora. This essay examines how fragmented identities address these issues, using my art practice as an read more …
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Essay – How can the ephemerality of bioplastic revive ecocentrism for the ecological world in the Anthropocene?
Essay by Stephie Ng for Contextualising Practice ‘So, we can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change and it has to start today’ – Greta Thunberg, 2018 In read more …
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Essay – How to Build a Person: Magical Realism in communicating medical trauma
Essay by Tallulah Ainsworth for Contextualising Practice Building a person is no easy task. There are many parts of a human being that all intersect with one another, and are incredibly delicate and prone to failure (Gray 1858). It is read more …
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Essay – Reconstruct the scene in fragments of memories: A manifesto for photographic collage
Essay by Sebastian Nuttney for Contextualising Practice This essay aims to detail my approach and methodology for photographic collages. This framework, presented as a manifesto, was developed alongside a body of photographic Collages completed in the early half of 2024. read more …
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Essay – Transformative textiles: How can the combination of textile and subtractive painting methods convey autobiographical narratives of trauma and memory?
Essay by Christina Rankin for Contextualising Practice This essay explores the connections between textile, memory, and trauma, focusing on how my artwork (pictured in Figure 1) Uniform incorporates these themes both individually and in conjunction. When utilised in art-making, textile read more …