THE RESONANCE OF A TANGLE 02022

This project is the culmination of two years research and development conducted through my Masters of Fine Art at RMIT in Naarm (Melbourne). The Resonance of a Tangle is drawn from the work of German art theorist and critic Isabelle Graw exploring an expanded notion of painting and its potential for agency. I’ve used material experimentation and improvisation to give agency to my body narrative and in doing so, seek to imbue my paintings with a vitality of their own. The Resonance of a Tangle is an evolving painting project, reforming and reconfiguring through each iteration.

Graw identifies phenomena relating to painting and agency; ‘indexicality’ as the transference of agency from artist to painting, and ‘vitalist projections’ as the recognition of a paintings agency by a viewer. These definitions have allowed me to further understand my responses to the work of Sonia Delaunay in my previous work and to explore the potential for painting to engage the viewer through my most recent painting projects.

Improvisation and material experimentation have become integral to my practice and have moved my work into realms of the performative or experiential. The Resonance of a Tangle is influenced by the history and potential of painting as a vast idiomatic practice, it takes it cues from Canandian-American artist Jessica Stockholder, German artist Ulla von Brandenburg and American artists Ann Hamilton and Robert Morris.

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The Resonance of a Tangle: iteration completed for MFA Graduate Exhibition - December 02022