The Collector is the true resident of the interior.
The Collector dreams their way not only into a distant or bygone world but also into a better one.Walter Benjamin
Definitely kunst.
Fiona Knight
Making an exhibition of myself
Social Fabric is back at Mask, Artemesia Gallery in August.
What I do
I make drawings, photo collages, and works on paper and board. Exploring the surface and components of being human fuels my creativity. My works often reference to pop culture and history, working in layers whether it be meaning or media or techniques like fashion or medical illustration. I ponder and explore the components of beauty and communication.
Work
Social Fabric 2
Reimaging Social Fabric to bring out its “live, laugh, love”. It is on show at Mask – the art of concealing and revealing at Artemisia Gallery and Event Space. The old story is the same story, but it is archived and replaced with a fresher sister. We are wired to fill in the gaps and …
Birmingham of Australia
Birmingham of Australia casts a twenty-first century lens across 1930s Footscray’s aspirations, where wealth and community were forged, in part, from black tyres on albeit stolen lands. The subsequent assessment and redevelopment of Olympic Tyres and Rubber Company point to how we constantly layer and rewrite our heroes and histories. Encaustic wax collage, 20.3cm x …
Rhytidectomy
Rhytidectomy is the surgical term for a facelift. It is an encaustic monoprint augmented by acrylic inks. An encaustic monoprint is a single print where I placed a 30cm by 30cm khadi paper square on a hot palette. Then I responded to the print with acrylic inks.
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