Just a bit about me
Hi, I'm India and I'm 22 years old and just beginning my creative practice. I have always had a love for fashion and the arts since I was young and have always wanted to work with a team restoring, promoting or creating art. I'm Currently studying at Curtin University, while also working to help keep the dream alive. I like exploring the different medias that encompass art, though print and sculpture are where i feel most at home.
Current practice
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Artist statement
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Formations explores themes of experience, imagination, and the nature of site. I hope to display these ideas through the chosen compounds used to create the work, the colouring of the rock like formations and, the experience. The work is organically composed of plaster and oxide (both of which made up of earth minerals.) This as the rock forms created within the work, were to respond and be responded to in a similar manner to how a rock formation in the landscape would be. Rock forms and their presence within site driving the aesthetic and composure of this work subjectively. The choice of oxide-based pigments to give reference to the natural site (oxide being only colours from the earth.) However, the work a simulative piece, that does refer to the nature of a site, but does not represent one present. This work to be engaged with then as one may negotiate a site and the forms within it (the work is not to be touched.) The size and aerial viewing of the work to play with the viewers perception of the forms within the non-site and navigate the work like they maybe would a map or unknown site.
My experience with natural sites always gets me interested in rocks and allows me to take my own route. This work then a piece that I hope others can experience as they would a natural site and having the freedom to perceive or imagine this unknown site further in their own way. The meaning then gained from the non-site through the personal experience you can have with it, like I or viewer may do with site.
form on mars, 2022, photo taken on Samsung galaxy. made within sculptural studio at Curtin University, this image used as inspiration for the type of surface I was trying to simulate.
