WORKS
Artist Lifestyle 2018
Artist Lifestyle presents machine style, hand painted, enamel on aluminum, for shiny, capitalist marketing promises, both a sales pitch and a word of warning, depending on the target audience. Is the artist lifestyle for you? Anagrams of Artist Lifestyle feature on each panel and together mysteriously unpack a hidden truthfulness, underlying expectations and assumed promises within its self referential reshuffled letters.
The words generated seem to speak directly to the contested social and economic value of art and the role of being an artist today. Artist lifestyle questions how personal, civic and national identity are formulated around artistic acts, objects and events.
Artist Lifestyle has been exhibited at:
Force Fields 2018 Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennale 2018
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True Estate @ Counihan Gallery Moreland Council 2018
True Estate @ Knulp Sydney 2019
Word @ Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide 2019