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| Myself and My Art In my routes of experiences, I have developed a better understanding of my own connection as a contemporary aboriginal artist. There was a time where I struggled to understand my connections to the past and the present, though deduced that it is not so much an exploration to find links to past traditions, rather it just naturally evolves, quite simply as an Aboriginal artist, I am one small contributing link to the evolving aboriginal art history over the course of many millennia. My artistic narratives continue the process of documenting our current realities and cultural ideology that in later years, will become a form of cultural preservation just like the art work of my ancestors before me, whose visual records I have learnt from. In this sense my work creates and recreates the history of tradition today, because tomorrow my work will be seen as traditional while another contemporary artist will have taken my place. |
Artist Autobiography: Reflections of Being in Place and Time My art is a reflection of my life, of being in place and time, just as art production is essentially a mirror of the self and the self in life. My visual narrative is influenced by my current realities such as significant events, challenges and milestones in my life, that are specific to the Aboriginal experience, both on a personal and national, political scale. I tell these stories through my art  to raise public awareness about issues, and to bridge the human connection. Ultimately, they become historical markers of a point of being in place and time.In the same sense, my work is a continuation of visual narratives expressed by my ancestors within time and place, that documented their cultural ideology, of spirituality, philosophy, mythology, social customs, personal experiences and history, that were defined from within their specific territory. Their forms were both codified abstractions and representational imagery, with an aesthetic that sought connections from the physical to the metaphysical through aesthetic harmony. >View complete autobiography online.< >View complete CV online.< |
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