Essay – Ethical Considerations for Artists Depicting Subjects: Suggestions and Self-Reflection

Essay by Lucas Jennings for Contextualising Practice When artists depict other people in their work, there is an imbalanced power dynamic, and critical ethical considerations arise. As my practice demonstrates, the need for ethical consideration becomes imperative when the depicted

Essay – How can practice create an asexually and aromantically queer space in an archive of allonormativity?

Essay by Alex Pretyman for Contextualising Practice Introduction  Within western archives, be that art-historical, social, queer, other archives, there is a distinct – or to many, not-so-distinct – absence of the asexual and aromantic. Asexuality can be defined as experiencing

Jiefei Chen

Recipient of the Sculpture Workshop Prize. _________________________________     ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯╭(′▽`)╯     My name is Jiefei Chen. I was born in Sichuan Province, China, and moved to Adelaide, Australia, with my family when I was fifteen, and live in

Matilda Kate Mourant

Matilda Kate Mourant is a multi media artist with a focus in printmaking. Her work examines printmaking, using various types of copperplate etching. Past explorations have involved screen printing, monotype, cyanotype, and frottage, also experimenting with drawing, written word, collage, and painting. Matilda’s work examines grief, love, and belonging through the examination of landscapes that are significant personal sites, carrying and shaping memories and exploring grounded existence. She explores the interconnectedness of the subconscious and the conscious state through interaction with landscapes en plein air as well as the interpretation of memory.

Mirjana Savic

Recipient of the Tania Doropoulos Prize. _________________________________ ATTENTION ON PERIPHERAL MOVEMENTS Attending to materials and material determination.    Shifting, transforming, sliding. Contained and coming undone.    Un-restricting materials and re-contextualising the everyday through transformative processes.   Transforming material narratives. Taking the functionality of

Obi Herron

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