Art as Knowledge - Phase 2_Ashleigh R 2021

Year 12 Ashleigh R Art as Knowledge Phase 2

Project Inquiry Phase 2 Contents: • Focus from Inquiry Phase 1 – not for re-assessment • Resolved work: The Renewal of Memories Plant pot Drop sheet soundscape art • Artist’s Statement • Display view • Individual pieces • Documentation • Annotated details of the resolved artworks to support performance descriptors in developing, researching and reflecting criteria • Supporting evidence – these slides were used in the student’s presentation of resolved work.

Focus – Inquiry Phase 1 (not for reassessment) The focus of Inquiry Phase 1 was, ‘Is where we are where we are meant to be?’ exploring the Idea of life and death. In this phase I expressed my feelings of grief for my Grandpa who passed away suddenly through a series of abstract artworks that responded to music that reminded me of him and my feelings about what happened to him.

Artist Statement

How do artists communicate the idea of renewal of memory and its importance in life?

You Don’t Have to Hurt Anymore Drop sheet, Pot and Album.

Mixed media

The purpose of this pieces is to represent the idea of how artists explore the theme of renewing memories, continuously revisiting and keeping the memories alive and in the from of the mind. This focus is inspired by my pop who has terminal cancer, and I want to honour him and reflect on who I know him to be while he is still here. I didn't have a chance to honour the person my grandpa was while he was alive because I didn’t realise the importance of renewing and revisiting memories of people while they are well and healthy until he passed away. So, I have created this sculpture with the aim to remind myself and others of the importance of revisiting and renewing memories of loved ones before they are not in our lives to make new memories with.

Resolved Collection of Work (Display view) You Don’t Have to Hurt Anymore Drop sheet, Pot and Album.

Mixed media

Resolved Collection of Work (individual pieces) You don’t have to hurt anymore 2.6m x 3.6m Acrylics on Drop sheet

Resolved Collection of Work (individual pieces) You Don’t Have to Hurt Anymore Top diameter: Approximately 37cm Bottom diameter: Approximately 21cm Height: Approximately 37cm Mixed media: drop sheet, PVA glue, paper Mache, etc.

Resolved Collection of Work (individual pieces) You Don’t Have to Hurt Anymore 20cm x 20cm Album x … pages

Resolved Collection of Work (individual pieces) You Don’t Have to Hurt Anymore 20cm x 20cm Album x … pages

Resolved Collection of Work (individual pieces) You Don’t Have to Hurt Anymore 20cm x 20cm Album x … pages

Annotation of resolved work

Developing: Personal context – inspired by the grief I Researching: The art of Sandy Wench inspired the abstracted felt after loosing my grandpa and the difficulty of remembering, after he passed style of the artwork and inclusion of a message away suddenly, the times I spent with him through words on the artwork. and the guilt of not thinking of him while Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art journal pages have he was alive.

Not wanting to have the same difficulty inspired the use of an album to document my ideas remembering the moments I spent with and story of each stage of my work for the audience to read and understand my thought process. my pop after he dies expectedly.

My Focus ‘Renewing and revisiting memories’ sparked by my fear of forgetting is communicated through the symbolism and meaning behind the methods of creating.

Reflecting: All the materials used were chosen so that everything that is used connects to a memory I have of my Pop. The evolving artwork changing from soundscape responses to, a banner with a clear message and meaning to, a pot symbolises the way my Pop views waste and the world but also symbolises a major part of who he is and what he loves and that is gardening.

Supporting Evidence For Gumtree Canoe, I used For Waltzing Matilda, I used red and copper blue and green paint, blue to coloured paint to represent the outback which is represent the water what I think of when I listen to this song.

Inspiration for painting in an abstract style in referenced throughout the order to convey the message was taken from song and green representing Sandy Welch’s three artworks, creating the gumtrees. Overall, the use images by layering paint while maintaining of blue and green paint structure within the pieces. I was inspired by represents nature, the her works to paint lyrics of one of the songs environment in which I have on the artwork itself to clearly communicate many memories of spending the message while creating a strong time with my family and my emotional connection with the audience.

Pop. For Today I Started Loving You For Wings of a Dove, I used copper, gold Again, I used red and gold and purple coloured paint. Copper to paint, red to represent the represent the age of the song, gold love I feel looking back on because it is colour commonly seen in For Battlefield I used blue, purple and gold. Blue memories and gold to churches and therefore represent the represent the beauty of the because there are references to the sea/ocean in the Christian faith and purple to represent lyrics, purple because the colour is a symbol of song. the importance of the memories that importance and the message and the song itself is important to me and gold to represent the connection are tied to this song.

I feel with God when listening to the song.

Supporting Evidence

Wings of a Dove – Charley Pride

Today I Started Loving You Again – Merle Haggard

Battlefield – Sam Rose Gum Tree Canoe – John Hartford

Waltzing Matilda – Slim Dusty

Supporting Evidence

Supporting Evidence The combination of pages put together in an untidy manner with the bold black lines was inspired by his ‘The Unknown Notebooks’.