2024 Emerging Contemporaries Exhibition Catalogue
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Justin Wasserman<br />
ARTIST STATEMENT<br />
This work presents a series of imagined<br />
fortresses. The form of the fortress is abstracted<br />
and reduced to a symbol which is repeated - with<br />
variations - across the series. Within the<br />
constraints of this refined form I draw<br />
inspiration for experimenting with line, texture<br />
and colour. The multi-plate monoprint technique<br />
offers endless opportunities for playing with the<br />
interactions between layers of colour; alternately<br />
hiding and revealing layers of mark-making.<br />
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY<br />
Justin is a Canberra-based emerging artist with a<br />
focus on drawing and printmaking. Justin was<br />
born in Zimbabwe and moved to Australia in 1988.<br />
He grew up in Perth before moving east to<br />
Canberra to work in the public service. Justin<br />
works from simple ideas influenced by art,<br />
literature and lived experience, which he then<br />
pushes as far he can into abstracted forms.
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