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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -Albert Einstein
Born in Australia to immigrant Italian parents, my practice as a contemporary visual artist is heavily influenced by my Italian heritage and is the driving source of inspiration. Within it I explore contemporary experiences as a young Australian woman with an imported traditional culture, dealing with issues of the intergration of two cultures. My work is the result of an autobiographical execution of the construction of identity through family relationships and the passing on of cultural heritage and traditions within the context of an adopted home land.
Childhood fantasies, familial relationships, the everyday and the construction of identity through cultural heritage are ongoing themes within my work. I employ filmic and art-historical video and performance references and actual and real-time video recordings (like my family at mealtimes) to explore these themes. I also often document and draw from the existing architectural surroundings of a space and combine these elements with performative video components to create sensorial installations.
By observing and incorporating these interiors and deconstructing linear ideas of time and space I aim to subvert conventional notions of video. Through the understanding of spatial proportions and harmonics, my work often seeks to create a strongly disorientating space that becomes unsettling or demands the physical participation of the viewer. The result is an energetic and sculptural redefinition of the moving image based around a fairytale place of deceptively childish charm and logic where ideas are literally translated into reality.
My practice to date has incoporated static sculptural installations using objects, such as a miniature dining table with a singular video component, to investigate these ideas.The combination of video and sculpture and playing with perspective and the proportions between the viewer and the work are continued themes within my work.
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Bachelor Fine Art (Painting) |
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Victorian College of the Arts |
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2009
I Want To Swng On An Invisible Swing, Center For Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne |
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SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2008
Winterlights, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
New Romance, Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne
Playheads, Alliance Francaise De Melbourne
Debut IV, Blindside, Melbourne
Annual Video Festival, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
What is (Australia like)?, Sub Urban Lounge, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007
And So It Is, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Key Dates, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
Wallara Travelling Scholarship 2007, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Somewhere To Run… Loop Bar, Melbourne
Do It, Hans Ulrich Obrist International Art Project, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Nice Name For A Dirty Joke, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
Self Portrait of My Mother, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Face it, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
Parked!!, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Collingwood Underground Arts Park, Melbourne
Great Expectations, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2005
A4, Westspace, Melbourne
Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Through The Turpentine, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
Shift #1, Private House, Brunswick, Melbourne
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES
2006
Live In The Nowhere, Mia Salsjo, Katya Grokhovsky, Santina Amato, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Unconditional Regard, Unconditional Regard, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2006
Herstory Of The Present, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne
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Ian Potter Cultural Trust Fund, $4,500.00 |
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Alliance Francaise De Melbourne Award 2007 |
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Shelmerdine Art Award, 2007 |
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Fringe Festival Visual Arts Award, 2006 |
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