UWS Sculpture Award 2008 Invitation (PDF, 2.23 MB) - Art Gallery ...

Amanda StuartArtist StatementMy intention as an artist is to explore the tensionsthat arise when domestic and wild animal andhuman communities co-habit a terrain - specificallywithin the contemporary Australian landscape andpsyche – and to address what questions arise aboutcultural identity.The wild dog is an invasive, hybrid animal directlyresulting from human modification of the environment,and to date the only known hybrid mammal, resultingfrom native and domestic mating.Mongrel Country (Nil Tenure) is comprised of 13 lifescale hybrid wild dogs made from a matrix of foundand cast materials in a configuration that representsboth familiar (domestic) and wild candid behaviourpatterns.The work interacts with the physical and psychologicalboundaries of the viewer.Artist BiographyPreviously a ranger with the NSW National Parksand Wildlife Service, her interest in form and humanrelations with the natural environment directlyinformed her studies at the ANU School of Art(Sculpture Workshop).Since graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Arts(1st class honours) in 2000, she has exhibited workin ACT & NSW.Amanda has been employed as a Lecturer, Cocoordinatorand Tutor Demonstrator at the School ofArt ANU since 2004, as well as an Art-Educator forthe National Gallery Australia since 2000.Presently a candidate for PhD in Visual Arts.Exhibitions2008 Sculpture on the Edge, Bermagui, NSW2008 In the Fold, ANCA, Dickson, ACT2007 Best in Show, CCAS Manuka ACT2006 Sculpture by the LakeSculpture Southern HighlandsFloriade, ACTArtisans in the Gardens – RBG Sydney2004 Sculpture by the Sea2001 Sculpture by the Sea46