Nature & Culture....

Charcoal drawing of tree with permanant marker drawing on leaves ...

sense of place

Sense of Place
Danielle Kelly


Rather than focusing on a physical sense of place, this work deals with the ephemeral notion of place within a family. Un-monumental events such as family dinners become more significant once isolated from other daily activities. Familiar scenes from movies of families eating dinner enables most viewers to identify with the event and feel a connection to scenarios portrayed.

By juxtaposing ‘family-dinner’ scenes in a grid and playing them simultaneously, the viewer would only be able to pay attention to certain aspects of the videos rather than absorbing all the scenes at the same time. The inability to comprehend all scenes at once, results in the viewer recognising phrases and actions, which trigger personal memories and feelings. Similar to the Rorschach inkblot test, individuals would have different reactions as they watch the scenes and identify with what is personally relevant.

Similar to Félix González-Torres’s use of personal particularities within his work by focusing on his illness, I decided to focus on a subject that was significant to myself. Being a ‘love child’ without acceptance of my fathers existing family; issues of family permeated my day-to-day life making me aware that even within ‘traditional’ family units there can be many psychological and cultural issues.

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Organs

Drawing machine

The assignment was to make a drawing machine.
I used people in the crowd to make the drawing.
again, still learning after effects...
:)

A short video

This video was my first experience with after effects.
it's a 15 second insight into what happens when i sit down to study.

More Body Photos...

Just some more body photography.

Coke.

made from coke bottles.
representing the ammount of coke bottles i find each day walking to class from the carpark at uni.
the sculptures are meant to look like weeds... the transparency is representing the killing of the nature for these bits of plastic to be there.

lesson learnt.... next time wear a gas mask while melting plastic... lol!

Natures nest eggs.

Another sculpture assignment...
it was about 'process'....
the process involved was collecting and responding to a certain site.

THE BODY SERIES #1

i'm not really sure what the assignment was for this...
i was really just having fun experimenting with the images that can be created by the human form.
my favourite one is the one that looks like a mountain. (thats my knee).

Stradbroke camp.

First year fine art students go on a weekend camp to create art on beautiful stradbroke island.
Here is the exhibition we held once we got home from straddy.

The sheets on the wall were the collaborative works, my group's were the two on the left, and the one made into a tent.

At the beginning of the camp we were given pieces of paper (message sticks) and we were supposed to create a work depicting our time on camp...
mine is below...

Footprints sculpture

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:

Many people will walk in and out of your life, But only true friends
will leave footprints in your heart.

This sculpture instillation represents the people that have been in my life that have had a significance.
the assignment was to create a sculpture showing a presence through absence".

made by masking tape moulds, socks and mum's good house paint :o) (sorry mum!)

Sculpture 1.

My first sculpture assignment.

Made from Clear Packing tape.
the table and cairs represent the snack foods that are sold at the shops these are photopgraphed at. They look like a table and chair, just like a bowl of chips looks like food... wheras there is no value to it, you can't sit on them, just like you get no nutritional value from chips.

Jewellery and Small Objects

This assignment, made from Copper and other random materials (street directory) was for an assignment about 'place', in particular places that are special to people.
The houses represent the homes people live in, with the symbols as windows suggesting that each there are many differences within the community (represented by the fragmented map underneath). inside the houses are similarly special objects representing the people inside.
Because the viewer had to look through the window to see what it was inside, this was to give a feeling of being intrusive or 'sneaky'.

early early early stuff..

this painting was inspired by the photo i took below.

this stuff probably doesn't need much comments.. just things i've collected probably from school.

HI

JUST A SMALL COLLECTION OF ARTOWORKS...
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