Hindmarsh Prize 2017
The Hindmarsh Prize recognises and promotes excellence and appreciation of the world-class artists working in glass who live and practice in the ACT and region
The Hindmarsh Prize recognises and promotes excellence and appreciation of the world-class artists working in glass who live and practice in the ACT and region
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ROSE-MARY FAULKNER OF SURFACE AND FORM<br />
The body is simultaneously familiar and foreign to use<br />
– it is with us always, yet we only ever have a restricted<br />
personal viewpoint of ourselves.<br />
Rose-Mary Faulkner investigates ways to observe<br />
and experience the body, and ways of visually<br />
expressing feeling and sensation.<br />
The body is simultaneously familiar and foreign to use<br />
– it is with us always, yet we only ever have a restricted<br />
personal viewpoint of ourselves.<br />
Rose-Mary graduated from the ANU School of<br />
Art & Design with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (glass)<br />
with Honours in 2016. Her honours year saw her<br />
conducting tests and explorations combining bodily<br />
imagery with the materiality of glass surfaces to<br />
observe and map her own figure. Of Surface and<br />
Form was one of her final works from this time.<br />
Rose’s practice primarily explores decal imagery on<br />
glass. She photographs sections of the body and<br />
abstract these images through digital manipulation.<br />
After transferring this imagery to glass using<br />
decals she further manipulate the surface and form<br />
through multiple fusings or coldworking.<br />
These works, activated by light, represent bodily<br />
form through simple but visually engaging shapes.<br />
Their organic shape mimics the smooth curve of<br />
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