#mixed-media

#mixed-media

John Nixon, the late Australian avant-garde artist, would sometimes save the shells from his boiled eggs and sprinkle them across blank paint, creating his own starry night. Other times he'd set himself rules, such as painting only in orange for five years. It was 1996 and he was becoming a father, so he wanted a streamlined practice plus, what other artist was associated with orange?

To create a unique visual language for each animated piece, Tala can find herself starting out on a project in a number of different ways.

My patchwork veils are wired tapestries of images and texture...I want it to feel complex but simple at the same time. I want the details and the objects to carry memory and trigger viewers into thinking about their associations with certain patterns and textures.

"Kennedy Yanko's work is a poetic dance between large chunks of old crushed metal that she rescues from scrapyards, combined with 'paint skins' - a material she creates by applying thick layers of paint to her floor and peeling them to become malleable 'paintings' without a canvas."