Unhinged 2014
David Fine Scholarship Exhibition
Unhinged is an exploration of personal experiences of domestic power structures. A combination of figurative elements, found objects and recycled building materials, the work acts as metaphors for physical and mental spaces of domestic intensity.
This exhibition was a requirement for receiving the David Fine Scholarship for Level 7 of the Bachelor in Visual Art and Design and showcased sculpture and paintings.
Unhinged is an exploration of personal experiences of domestic power structures. A combination of figurative elements, found objects and recycled building materials, the work acts as metaphors for physical and mental spaces of domestic intensity.
This exhibition was a requirement for receiving the David Fine Scholarship for Level 7 of the Bachelor in Visual Art and Design and showcased sculpture and paintings.
Below. A selection of the exhibited work.
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Photo images for Unhinged courtesy Kevin Bridle - Photographer
New Zealand Sculpture on Shore 2014
Selected works for the New Zealand Sculpture on Shore. Takapuna Fort. Devonport, Auckland.
2014 Ideaschool Graduate show
In the Ideaschool graduate exhibition I showcased a series of work that continued to explore issues of domestic disharmony creating small monuments to it out of ceramic and concrete, building discards and ready made objects.
The work bounced between a more accessible narrative reading where the figurative connotations are obvious and a more elusive, therefore poetic content in the concrete and birds nest works.
Concrete is a material that is used to create buildings and their foundations, for structural strength, and is associated with the urban environment. It undergoes several transitions as a material. Other materials can be embedded into concrete and become entrapped. Using these things, its heaviness, and its unexpected abrasive surface qualities, what is seen as a everyday functional material becomes embedded not only with the real but also the imagined.
The work bounced between a more accessible narrative reading where the figurative connotations are obvious and a more elusive, therefore poetic content in the concrete and birds nest works.
Concrete is a material that is used to create buildings and their foundations, for structural strength, and is associated with the urban environment. It undergoes several transitions as a material. Other materials can be embedded into concrete and become entrapped. Using these things, its heaviness, and its unexpected abrasive surface qualities, what is seen as a everyday functional material becomes embedded not only with the real but also the imagined.
©2014. Artworks and photo images. Susan Mabin.