Our Featured Artworks for 2020
Larissa MacFarlane
Artist: Larissa MacFarlane
Title: Balancing Life
Year: 2012
Medium: Linocut
Image description: The front part of a sneaker is stepping onto a rope. Far below is a traffic intersection.
Artist: Larissa MacFarlane
Title: Many rivers to cross the Moonee Ponds Creek (detail)
Medium: linocut
Year: 2012
Image Description: A black and white linocut image of many concrete columns that hold up many intersecting freeways above. Through the middle travels a long train, across a wide waterway.
Jamahl Pollard
Artist: Jamahl Pollard
Title: Dancing With You
Medium: Acrylic paint on stretched canvas-digitally enhanced.
Dimensions: 91 x 76×2.2cm
Year: 2020
Image description: The background is a wash of almost cloudlike fluffy shapes obscuring the horizon line. On the left, a man is dressed in a clean, 1970’s style, dark suit with a bowler hat, holding a rose in his right hand. He is only visible from the waist up and his left arm overextends, stretching ribbon-like to cradle a woman who is tilting back as she begins to swirl. Above them are a dancing couple’s legs. The dancing couple have a deep trust and passion for the style of movement, a bond that cannot be broken.
About the artwork: Jamahl says “Inspired by the occasional opportunities I’ve had to attend some of the live performances by Restless Theatre and Dance Company, held at the Norwood Town Hall while on trips to Adelaide over the years.
“Being a visual artist/poet, [I have] admiration for the effort the participants go to in order to put together high-end shows that cover all kinds of themes; from love to friendships and tragedies.
“The concentration is clearly visible, as each character delivers a convincing act, overcoming their own challenges of living with a disability.
“The work was originally started in 2006 and has been re-worked about 3 times since. In its current format, the work has been digitally enhanced, transposing the work into black and white.
“There is also a poem written about the work as part of the Riverland Writers Group for the annual exhibition held at the Berri Visitor Information Centre back in 2016. The poem depicts a series of repetitious and re-occurring dreams over a 6-7 year period.”
Elizabeth West
Artist/Photographer: Elizabeth West
Title: “Disc Texture”
Medium: Salvaged polycarbonate box strapping.
Dimensions: 2m diameter
Year: 2014
Image description: A weaving of brightly coloured concentric circles; blue, yellow, red, white and green.
About the artwork: A reflection on how sustainable culture is woven from the repetition of actions and patterns.
Matthew Clarke
Artist: Matthew Clarke
Photographer: Sabre Tate
Title: “Inspired by visiting Shane Howard”
Medium: Fine liner on paper.
Dimensions: 1000mm x 700mm
Year: 2019
Image description: Fine liner on white paper drawn using thousands of marks in a unique abstract style. Artwork depicts Shane Howard, a man wearing a hat, in an open landscape, surrounded by animals and object with environmental themes, which include; wallabies, birds, wind farms and a small house.
Carmel Taylor
Artist: Carmel Taylor
Photographer: Jenni L. Ivins
Title: “Oops! I Mixed the Colours and Whites!”
Medium: Mixed media
Year: 2019
Image description: A row of marbled clothes on a washing line.
Andi Snelling
Artist: Andi Snelling
Photographer: Sarah Clarke
Title: Left: “Ready for Anything”, Right: “Feet Reach”
Medium: Live Performance
Year: 2019
Image description: This is a combination of two black and white photographs taken from Andi’s award-winning show Happy-Go-Wrong. On the left, a fair-skinned woman with brown hair stands perfectly still with eyes closed and hands lingering in front of her stomach. She wears a sleeveless white dress and is surrounded by a giant paper mass. On the right, two upside down legs reach upwards with extended feet, while a single hand reaches across on an upwards angle. The skin is white and the background is black.
Incite Arts
Artist: Martin Armstead
Photographer: Virginia Heydon
Title: Close To Me
Medium: Live Performance
Year: 2011
Image description: A middle-aged man is kneeling on one knee with his arms outstretched. He is looking up. Behind him are people sitting on closed suitcases.
Prue Stevenson
Artist: Prue Stevenson
Title: Expend
Medium: Acrylic on Wall (Mural)
Dimensions: 180cm x 240cm
Year: 2014
Image description: Many overlapping imprints of a foot dragging down a wall.
About the Artwork: Influenced by South Korean minimalist Artist Lee Ufan, Prue considered his Korean background and how she practiced a Korean sport in Taekwondo.
The Taekwondo “kihap” shout translates as spiritual energy to provide power. In “Expend”, Prue’s “kihap” also represents a shout out for neurodiversity acceptance, and space to freely and safely express her autistic culture.
A symbol of energy transfer through self-regulation, “Expend” explores the autistic culture of “stimming” as expressed in Prue’s www.stimyourheartout.com Project and Research.
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Our Featured Artworks for 2020
Congratulations to Larissa MacFarlane, Jamahl Pollard, Elizabeth West, Matthew Clarke, Carmel Taylor, Andi Snelling, Incite Arts and Prue Stevenson, whose submitted artworks were chosen by Arts Access Australia to appear as the feature artworks on ...
