ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

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projects of land reclamation.Dahlsen’s retrieval of the waste productof plastics manufacturing partakes ofthe same spirit, serving to remind us ofthe interconnectedness of environmentalissues, but also attempting to reclaimwaste and the destruction of nature in thebeauty of art.Dahlsen’s treatment valorises purgedplastic as an object of acute visual interestand cultural importance: the blobs arerendered large, exalted on a plinth. Thecolours are flat and close in tone, thecompositions crossing the genres of stilllife and abstraction: the materiality of theplastic flattens into pattern, then springsback into organic matter.This play between abstraction andfiguration, between synthetic/organicmatter and immateriality in the purgepaintings, has been applied in Dahlsen’smost recent works to landscapes —dark works whose subtle references164
to environmental degradation all butdisappear before forcefully catching youunawares.This tension between inorganic abstractionand emotionally charged organismlends these works particular resonance,given their inception in the politics ofenvironmental art. They play out, in elegantand economical aesthetics, the unstableboundaries between the natural and theartificial, reminding us of Wendell Berry’sparadox that “the only thing we have topreserve nature with is culture; the onlything we have to preserve wildness with isdomesticity.”…165
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ART INSIGHTSCreating Wealth as aSuc
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All Rights Reserved.Reproduction or
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Table of ContentsPart I (page 7)Alc
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Part IAlchemy: My Career in Environ
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This new medium, it occurred to me,
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My InfluencesAs a young artist, I w
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form of both patronage and exhibiti
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Shedding of IdentityMy entrée into
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Sandra Murray, the then director of
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In 2006, the United Nations Environ
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"Thong Totems"Found objects and Sta
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I toe the line betweenfulfi llment
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“Blue River”Recycled Plastic Ba
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esidence at Jefferson City, Missour
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Driftwood artMy work with driftwood
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Digital Prints and PaintingsAnother
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As well as embracing the digital an
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“Light Blue Purge Dialogue”Acry
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geometrical imagery and constructiv
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The Pass #52007Acrylic on Belgian L
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‘Contemporary Landscapes’ -his
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of Wendell Berry’s paradox that
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Central ConcernsIt amazes me to thi
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It is of utmost importanceto have a
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Let’s be clear about one fact: th
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The manager of the plant was highly
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Remember that it isyou who is placi
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62how much you’re willing to sacr
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3. FOCUS.Successful artists have th
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ends meet. This usually does not wo
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Managing your timealso means placin
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your next show, selling art and tal
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To create somethingof beauty at any
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and start again. My integrity force
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Marketing is also anattitude. Your
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her updated website that she set up
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that you feel confident about the w
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Approaching GalleriesOne of the fir
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it’s good to acknowledge it. Ther
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opportunities, such as writing a bo
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The Parthenon PrincipleTo create an
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Responsible Financial ManagementArt
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please everyone that they say yes t
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dealings, but you might find that t
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do gauge that as both an interior q
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“6 Driftwood Totems”Found Drift
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I strive to act as areminder of our
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Reflections on Obstacles.You always
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Page 129: Articles and Reviews“Australian E
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Page 148 and 149: concerned about global warming. But
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Page 157 and 158: Are paper bags any better?As paper
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Page 168 and 169: ReferencesPart I1,2Murray, Sandra.
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