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Joan Ross
Conceptual framework
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World
Social concerns of the landscape and indigenous history > legacy of colonialism, devastating consequence of modern life on culture and environment
Interested in colonial history – one nation subjugates another, conquering its population and exploiting it while forcing language and own cultural values on the people > 1788, Australia treated as settlement
colonialism
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1788 = captain arthur phillip colonised, next 10 years = 90% indigen pop died
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Artist
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colonisation and the advent of Hi Vis reflect the hierarchical regimentation and organisation of spaces’
an Ross works across a range of mediums including drawing, painting, installation, photography, sculpture and video. Her bold and experimental practice investigates the legacy of colonialism in Australia, p a rtic u la rly in re g a rd to its effect on Indigenous Australians.
Quotes
"The basis of all my work is the connection and disconnection with nature, this underlying message suggests that the spiritual connection to land and the merging with nature is an imperative for the human soul and our survival."
“I’m really interested in history and the re-telling of history and all the lies and bias projection that history is . I think my interest in history stems from my real interest in nature . And my interest in what being civilised is .”
Both colonisation and the advent of Hi Vis reflect the hierarchical regimentation and organisation of spaces . This masculinization of space combined with workman’s Hi Vis clothing is generally a masculine marker of the working class and provides an illusion of authority .”
I don’t think you can live in Australia without considering the past. Every day, when I go to the beach, floating in the water, looking back at the land, I imagine living here in this paradise and then having the colonials arrive . I always feel that I’m on indigenous land.
Claiming of things
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I have started with one of my favourite John Glover paintings and have changed it around and added my own perspective on colonisation and what ‘being civilised is’
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ARTWORK
Appropriates John Glover’s ‘The Bath of Diana, Van Diemen’s Land’ – he was an early colonialist who was trained in the European way of landscape painting and thus didn’t know how to properly paint the trees > he represented Aboriginal people in their own country in the southern Bagdad valley and Brighton plains: irony that he would paint them and their way of life at the time when most of it was destroyed: lies within the historical images, imagined figures – they weren’t actually there
Glover's ausyralia
When he arrived in Van Diemen's Land the Palawa were no longer living freely in the bush as depicted here, but had been deported to Flinders Island.
However, from the time he arrived in the colony, Glover was aware of Indigenous Tasmanians and made drawings of them, learning and transcribing the names of those he met. He included them dancing, swimming, hunting and resting in a number of his paintings
Digiital animation uses early colonial Australian painting by John glover as background – untouched Australian landscape becomes the setting for a changing landscape, inhabited by Aboriginal people who have it sectioned off by the colonialists
colonial occupation = deluge of material possessions and number of comsumer durables which threaten to engulf the river
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The landscape is vandalised by the colonial lady who, rather against type, takes a spray can and tags a rock with the word ‘banksia’ – a play on the graffiti artist Banksy , and on the colonial botanist Sir Joseph Banks who gave his name to the native banksia shrub.
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Ideas concepts
the claiming of colonialists on the indigenous land of the australians, how they took over everything and ultimately put up fences, dividing the once shared land into the westernised culture parts
Banksia spraypaint – botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who gave his name to banksia shrub
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material techniques
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Her use of iconography exaggerates the alien and foriegn nature of western colonisation in Australia
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Incorporates Fluro after the 9/11 and how it holds fear, opposite nature, being civilised but mainly for the influx of ho we use Fluro very commonly today in fashion generations
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The fence that divides the lake and land is done to show the involvery of boundaries and making decisions of that is mine (claiming things)
postmodern
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Appropriates artworks from older ages, such as John Glover and his bendy trees
The use of bright fluoro colours -
becomes a motif and metaphor for colonialisation
and fear >>>> Hi-vis is a foreign, artificial
colour - not found in nature,
Ross deploys hi-vis to emphasise foreign or
alien aspects in the environment e.g. people, animals, objects
Uses contemporary mediums that are not traditional, such as video, virtual reality, digital collage, digital media, collaboration and animation
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Artmaking practice
ideas and concepts
Appropriation – combination of elements from well known colonial history paintings > reference contemporary life
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Her animations address the impact of colonialism as well as our disposable culture, questioning the benefits of civilisation and capitalism
materials and techniques
Strong visual elements: fluorescence – symbolically to show colonisation and fear, contemporary and modern colour-represents artificial>danger
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Works across forms > animation, VR, sculpture, drawing, painting, installation
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