JOSEPH BEUYS CAFE AWARD WINNER
THE MOAT AWARD WINNER
ENERGY IN MOTION AND A ‘MOVING DRAWING’ – transformations of individual drawings expand into animated projections, manifesting through spatial investigations and sculptural installations. Lines and forms seemingly grow and shrink, sway and dance, consume and deflate, gather and disintegrate.
Focusing on the method of making, an intentional rejection of preconceived outcomes has led to an approach towards automatic drawing, where lines and forms spontaneously emerge from underneath my hand. In search for a kind of freedom in making, relinquishing autonomy and allowing myself to trust my intuition, my work has developed through a self-referential feedback loop, responding to the innate features of acquired materials, approaches to mark-making, and site-specific considerations. Multiple iterations of these animation works has seen many different approaches to installation and how this engages with audiences’ experiences, whether it be showing the frames of drawings themselves, creating immersive and sculptural installations, or taking the work outside into public spaces.
Emily Song (she/her) is an Australian-born Chinese emerging artist who is based across Naarm /Melbourne and Boorloo/Perth. Her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in expanded drawing, manifesting through forms of painting, sculpture, installation and the moving image. Currently engaged with ideas of the ‘moving drawing’, her process-driven practice utilises a sense of labour and repetitive methods of making, exploring ephemerality and impermanence. Her work experiments with conscious and unconscious ways of making as a method to understand the world around her, her own lived experiences and multifaceted identities, exploring the intersections of time, memory and place. Her most recent body of work showcases a fascination in motion, energy and transformation through spatial investigations.
