IA3 explores the concept of ‘Art as alternate’.
This project provided opportunities for students to enrich their knowledge and aesthetic experience of the world through creative thinking, making and responding to art in the contemporary context.
As an artist, they considered how alternate methods of abstraction, representation or symbolism can enhance or deepen the communication of meaning in their body of work, and develop new meaning through a lens of 21st century ideas.
Inquiry phase 3 is the third stage in the self-directed body of work.
NICHOLAS BOWEN
Are you satisfied?
Scrap Material Sculpture
Out with the old, in with the new. Modern society thrives off of the capitalist cycle of production and consumption. However, the price tag we pay for the latest feel-good gadget doesn’t only come at the cost of an empty wallet, rather, the depletion of natural resources and the dilution of unmanageable waste into countless ecosystems and environments.
This piece reflects the unseen aftermath that our consumerist choices have brought upon these ecosystems/environments and inhabitants (including ourselves) through the overproduction and overconsumption of needless products, merely to satisfy our materialistic desires.
Bundles of waste material, formed into the shape of a dolphin, presents viewers the opportunity to see their infliction on the environment.
The avarice curse of the consumer: will you ever be satisfied?
LEVI BRADNAM
Boards of the Decades
Digital prints and paper clay painted sculpture
The world is an ever-changing place with pandemics, social issues, new trends and constant change coming everyday. It is hard to keep up. The world is evolving at a fast pace, without a stop insight.
My artwork offers a reflection, or a glimpse to some of the events, trends and objects that have come and gone over the past 30 years. Each artwork represents a 10 year period. The selected icons each mirror trends and events within the decades. These sketches and sculptures are almost emoji like, giving the artwork a playful style; while also remaining relevant as emojis and icons in the contemporary concept. Emoji images have become a huge part of the world today.
Each piece has some level of parody and remix reflective of our lives. I have incorporated my image as motif in the work to show how both I have changed and how the world around me has changed.
ETHAN DONNELLY
Past Soles
Graphic Prints and sculptures
My artwork “Past Soles” is an incorporation of both digital artwork and sculpture.
The times of COVID-19 have become a problem in society : that of holding onto to what has gone.
The shoes in the artwork represent the memories and have been composed in order to tell the audience that it might be time to you put these memories on the shelf and let them go. To add further depth to the artwork there are physical shoes that have been disfigured and represented in a variety of ways to show stories and memories with each pair. The text explains the way the shoes died and why they were put to rest.
The sculpture and the digital prints work together by incorporating a personal context - my shoes and then a cultural context - the prints : as sneaker culture is widely known across the world.
JETT HOPKINS
Passion
Photoshop
My work explores the relationship between a young man's passions and relatable personal qualities displayed, in this case as a series of dreamlike settings with depictions of a car.
The car enthuses core qualities with a meaningful symbol being car wheels, the symbol of a cars wheels relates to the words in each individual piece.
My influence was Ben Quilty and Alexis Christodoulou's artwork, new combinations , incorporating the two artist styles are distilled creating new meaning. The combination between Christodoulou’s minimalist 3d renderings and Quilty’s abstract vehicle related works shows a more positive standpoint to the inquiry question, especially when you introduce predominantly pastel colours throughout the series of works.
REUBEN NORTON
All That is Fowl
Paper-clay sculptures
My body of work incorporates a series of sculptures that are much like the pots in the card game Yu-Gi-Oh. Inspired by the “Pot of Greed” these sculptures explore 3 capital vices (also known as the 7 deadly sins) which are anger, pride, and lust. This is represented with the faces of different celebrities whose personalities align with each sin such as Gordon Ramsey, Donald Trump, and Hugh Hefner.
My sculptures essentially prove my inquiry correct; that the use of iconic imagery in visual art can explain the intended deeper meaning in the absence of words.
JOSHUA STATHAM
“BRANDING”
Digital imagery
What's "in trend” is determined by modern day society. When you take something, so misunderstood and negatively looked at by the media, such as the Muslim culture and overwhelm it with “trendy” elements, the mindset of society automatically changes. Involving named branding such as Burberry, Nike and GAP- the focal point is placed on the brands no matter what the circumstance. In my work I have used well known branding to manipulate the audience perception. A lot of mediated communication on Muslim culture and religion is negative. However, surrounding my works with this high demand, “trendy” branding changes or manipulates the audience response. It is only after looking deeper into the images that the relation to the Muslim religion and culture become evident - not focal.
CALLUM WHITTON
Powers of Justice
Digital Media and Photoshop
“Justice is a dish best served cold” where everything bubbles to the surface and all your wrong doings are made to be seen by Lady Justice. Contemporary aesthetics are seen with the clothing that is warn as Lady Justice helping represent that she is blind to Wealth, Power, Gender and Race. But in many cases those four powers of Justice are exploited in the court system in order to prevent justice being served. The four photos are my representations of what the four powers of justice would look like in the form of Lady Justice. The scales represent the evidence being weighed on its own merit, the blindfold represents objectivity and impartiality and the sword represents punishment in the way that it is swift and final.
