Artwork Title: Untitled
Artist: Tineuqa Tarrant
Artist Statement:
My artwork is a response to the Surrealism Movement. It references artists Rene Magritte and Frida Kahlo.
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Artwork Title: Nightmares
Artist: Betheni-Ann Wilson
Artist Statement:
In this digital image wanted to show how on the outside some people look fine but on the inside they might feel bad. I expressed this by having my character’s hands raised to her face, swirling in a black void and with shapes like hands coming to get her. I used blue and red to contrast aiming to make the viewing feel uneasy. Its a feeling we all have at some stage in our lives.
Artwork Title: Family are Everything
Artist: Dakota Hobbs
Artist Statement:
This simple Lino Print was a study of line and shape. I mass produced this print on many colours to study the effect colour has on an image. The inspiration for the image came from a family photograph of my sister and I in an embrace when we were younger. Family are so important to me and I wanted to play with line, shape and colour to test those elements for future artworks.
Artwork Title: Flying High
Artist: Emily Davis
Artist Statement:
As a young child I fly in planes with my father and admired the sky. It always felt free and beautiful flying so high above everything. This artwork is one of three images that show the beauty of the sky from a different perspectives. Using pencil on drafting film allows me to gain the detail and transparency or softness that flying in the sky provides.
Artwork Title: Body Beautiful
Artist: Elena Baxter
Artist Statement:
This Lino Print shows the imperfections of a woman’s body as perceived by the media. The rolls and marks on her body are shown by enhancing the carvings and colours in those areas. The black of the underwear was chosen to sink those areas back into the background to accentuate the features of the body more rather than place importance on the clothing. The message is a simple one, young females’ should celebrate their shape and not judge it.
Artwork Title: Burning Star
Artist: Hayden Foweraker
Artist Statement:
This digital print is inspired by the magical creature called the Phoenix. It is a made up creature that resembles an eagle-like bird somewhat on fire. During the creation of this digital print I made choices of adding yellow highlights to the lower feathers on the wings, tail and crest. The use of shading allowed me to detail, I ensured the scale was correct.
Artwork Title: King Fisher
Artist: Kiara Pritchard
Artist Statement:
I used this study of a King Fisher to learn about the reduction method of Lino Printing. I was inspired by Picasso and his use of Lino Printing techniques to show shape, colour and line. Every time I go fishing I see these beautiful little birds and so wanted to use the lines and shapes I see as inspiration for this study.
Artwork Title: Darwin Skies
Artist: Mikayla Stacey
Artist Statement:
Using watercolour I challenged myself to capture the feeling we all get when we look at the Darwin skies right at the point when the sun goes down. Using watercolour to capture the highlights I wanted also to show the beautiful blends that heal your soul.
Artwork Title: Reggie
Artist: Maisie Davis
Artist Statement:
This drawing comes from one of the first photos I ever took of my dog Reggie. My goal was to practice drawing a dog while incorporating as much tone and texture as I could. The tongue and the collar were a challenge. My favourite part of the drawing is the eyes. Eyes tell the story of personality and Reggie has a fun-loving personality so I used highlights to aim to show that.
Artwork Title: Untitled
Artist: Rachael Broeckel
Artist Statement:
The overall theme of my war artwork is based on loved ones left behind, specifically, the mother’s, lovers, and wives. This painting focuses on the women of WWI. During this era, it was no easy feat for these women to be left to fend for themselves and their family.
The use of colour to depict the emotional state of the subject was of great importance to me. The red and blue tones were used to symbolise her grief and pain and grief. The emphasis on the nose and eyes, depicts that she has been crying. These colours were chosen to show contrast and stand out to the viewer. The subject was a German WW2 actor, Leni Riefenstahl. I chose Riefenctahl, as I found her to be a woman with stern, strong facial features and a notable face during war times. I chose to not replicate her image exactly, but drew inspiration from the strong features and stare she holds.
Artwork Title: Untitled
Artist: Isabelle Craven
Artist Statement:
This artwork was part of my Visual Study which explored how artists interpret still life through different media. This particular experiment was using acrylic paint. I did a little bit of a conceptual spin but include symbols and motifs that are realistic to a still life, such as eyeballs in the ramen and the news reporting an Alien Invasion.
Artwork Title: The Gasmask
Artist: Evie de Jager
Artist Statement:
This work is a representation of my perspective on War. A clay mask of a man who has died. The worms crawling out of the head symbolise how war rots ones brain and traumatises. I used dark glaze paints to create texture and to add a sullen mood to my work and to express how violent war is. I used red glaze paint to represent blood, which gives the effect that the man died a gruesome death, creating a darkness to the work, grabbing the viewers attending and making them feel uneasy.
Artwork Title: Consumed by War; The Young Won’t be Forgotten
Artist: Mikayla Brady
Artist Statement:
James Charles Martin was the youngest to die in World War 1 at 14 years old. Although, he did not die due to injury, he died due to the severe conditions that soldiers were living in. James became very ill due to the poor sanitation and caught a fever whilst living in the trenches, which eventually lead to heart failure. I have created a monochrome painting, with the shades of red utilised around his heart, contrasting and blending into the yellow, putting an emphasis on his cause of death, a fever and heart failure. This also brings attention to the highlighted region by the use of two differing colour schemes. I felt this image of James represented how war is full of violence and hate, and it consumes our youth, taking them too early.
Artwork Title: Untitled
Artist: Gabrielle Da Costa
Artist Statement:
This work is part of my Visual Study. I create this a part of my exploration of Pointilism with a focus on Pop Artist Roy Liechtenstein. I screen printed the dots using a silkscreen to explore a new technique I wasn’t familiar with.
Artwork Title: FREEDOM!
Artist: Princess Gurtiza
Artist Statement:
Freedom! is a war art sculpture, representing the survival and deception of the youth involved in war. Using human appendages; hands, to express one’s feelings. Hands are gestural and can show signs of wear and tear. The clenching fist represents, not only anger, but also the idea of fear. We humans clench our bodies when responding to both these emotions and the hands are the most visible appendage, by binding these hands together by the wrists, shows the restraints and lack of freedom these young soldiers have and how they are incapable of breaking free. Soldiers are often forced to fight and if they do not enlist, they would be considered cowards. They sacrifice their lives for many, yet they receive little or no attention and respect in return.
Artwork Title: War Art Embroidery
Artist: Ebony Grosser
Artist Statement:
In this war art embroidery, I have explored the theme of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD and its affects on those involved in war. I have utilised symbolic elements, woven throughout the work to convey my message. The image itself is of a person who has served in a military force and has come back with PTSD. The lace detailing represents their memories of war. The traumatic and distressing memories are presented as cotton thread and the positive ones are synthetic, shiny threads. The synthetic threads can be seen as consumed by the cotton threads, symbolising that the only positive memories of war are drowned out by the negative ones. The image of a body laying down with the poppy bleeding, is the memory of someone close, a fallen comrade. The purposeful use and placement of the poppy was to represent the idea of remembrance, whilst the silhouette of the soldier represents the vast number of those at war, often categorised by a number. In the face area, the stitches are close together and a different colour, while the rest of the head’s stitches are messy and have loose threads. This shows that the person is keeping up appearances to the outside world, whilst starting to fall apart and come undone on the inside.