Artist's Studio #1- Remodelled 2.0

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Artist's Studio #1- Remodelled

Artist's Studio #2

Upper: Fabrication
Lower: Irratic

Artist's Methodology

The first artwork shown is from a series called “Something More” by Tracey Moffatt. The composition was commissioned by the Albury Regional Art Gallery in 1989 and is one of Tracey Moffatt’s most distinguished art works. Through this series, Moffatt became one of Australia’s most famous modern artists. “Something More” is a photographic series. It was shot in the Link Studios in Wodonga, Victoria near the gallery where it would hang. For the photo-narrative of “Something More” Tracey had backdrops and sets built to look similar to a film set. Tracey Moffatt describes herself as being an amateur when it comes to photography. She prefers to direct the photo shoots, while photographic technicians actually take the photos. In this series Moffatt opted to be in front of the camera as the main character, as in many of her other photographic art series.


The following artwork is a piece by Rosalie Gascoigne. This sculptural piece was first released into the public in 1993, labeled “White City”. Gascoigne is known for her use of found and natural materials. She would salvage objects from her rural outback Australian home, through tips and paddocks. None of the objects she used were new, as she wanted the materials to have a sense of past. Rosalie was known for being a hoarder, creating pieces though looking and experimenting with the vast material range she would surround herself with in her studio, house and garden. Gascoigne uses found objects to create her signature grid-like sculptural pieces. “White City” was a development of a jigsaw style grid with intricately arranged rectangles in a range of sizes. Rosalie Gascoigne contrasts the used objects found in the rural environment by creating her art with help from ‘machine age’ technology such as electrical saws. However, she creates an imperfect look in her grids by skewing shapes through subtle hand-made cuts.

Artist's Studio #1

Upper: Fabrication
Lower: Infinity

Week 1

Tracey Moffat
Noun 1: Fabrication

Verb 1: Wandering

Adjective 1: Ambigious

Rosalie Gascoigne
Noun 2: Infinity

Verb 2: Obscuring

Abjective 2: Erratic

Week Zero

A.

These sketches were part of a design project in which I designed costumes for the main characters of a story turn play. These are two of my designs I created for the characters ‘Alice’ and ‘The Queen of Hearts’ of Alice in Wonderland. I took inspiration from the dramatic nature of mime art and the link between colour and temperament. I used black and white as a basic palette to accentuate the character's 'true colours'.

B.

Hiraoko Otani – Layer House

The designer created his unique home on a slender 2.9m wide block in Kobe, Japan. Otani dealt with the small 33m2 area by building up and down. Public and private spaces were creating by using multiple levels to separate spaces rather than through conventional doors and walls. The house was built using stacked concrete planks as a shell, thus the name Layer House. Otani used the void between each concrete beam to provide function, cantilevering wooden planks to create stairs, tables and chairs and allowing light into a house without conventional windows.

C.

This photo was taken in Shinjuku, Tokyo on a trip to Japan last year. This was my first feel of Tokyo and I felt like a moth being drawn in by the bright lights. This photo shows that beauty can be found in an urban environment. Japan also holds a fascination with me because of how culturally different it is to Australia.

Fiona Hall

integral, encompassing, controversial

Tracey Moffat

fabrication, wandering, ambigious

Rosalie Gascoigne

infinty, obscuring, erratic