Fri 20th - Sun 22th February 09 | 10am - 6pm
Main Square
bronze, aluminium, wax, clay, plaster
Beingness' proposes to provoke a response to our private space in the public face and questions our individual perception of ourselves in the world. Human beings in a complex search of individuality absorb a mass of commodities in daily life. How we experience the world as unique individuals in physical and psychological space, constructs our identity, sense of self, conditions of reality and our rules for living. Sophisticated technology causes us to become so engrossed with what happens, so absorbed in the contents of life that we forget our Beingness. Measuring the world from our own bodies we embrace a culture of cuteness. A simple anthropomorphism, cuteness dominates our emotive states as we are drawn to the proportional formula of youth and symmetry. The individual uniqueness dissolves as each being is cloned, captured in consumption of hieratical collective prompts us to consider who “I” is in our search for meaning. We cannot sustain our Beingness by projecting our individual identity as a collective consumer culture.
Sarah Deed
Sarah Deed completed a Diploma in Graphic Design at Wellington Polytechnic NZ in 1986 working briefly in NZ before moving to Melbourne and working as a commercial artist from 1987 to 1990. Deed worked as a specialist currency designer for Note Printing Australia, a division of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1990 to 2004, designing and developing legal tender currency and security product for national and international bodies. Deed completed a Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture at RMIT University in 2008. Her practice explores the human conditions of reality and the individuals perception of themselves. The flux of the artists life reflects life as art, which has become the basis for her work.Exhibitions And Highlights Include:- INTERPOL Amsterdam 2002, Blue Sky, Designer of a new concept in substrate and security features for banknote counterfeiting deterrence. International Colour Society Conference, Presenter 2003. ‘Ivy the Leaf Princess’ by Kirsten McDougall, Illustrator 2006. Public Face Exhibition R.M.I.T. University, Looking Out 2006. International Virtual Studio Project with the Chelsea School of Art London, Blue Dog 2007. Fresh Festival, Craft Council of Victoria, Beingness 2008
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