Lucy Teague ‘How do you see me?’ 2021. Video. 3:13 min. Image courtesy: the artist.
Artist statement
How do you see me? explores traces of the female body critiquing the heavy scrutiny it attracts. Videos and scans capture the movement of hands and faces creating tension through performance, abstraction, layering and animation. The work is intent on disrupting scopophilic instincts and the paradoxical objectification of women bound to their ‘inherent narcissism’. I aim to challenge the controversy surrounding female artists’ embodiment in art as arousing conventions behind the omniscient male gaze.
Felines is a series of four oil pastel drawings, depicting cats in various contexts. Emphasising textural materiality and the humility of the handmade, blocks of saturated colour are embellished with hard and soft mark-making achieved via scumbling, sgraffito, and blending techniques. Drawing upon the influence of Noel McKenna, elements of humour, kitsch, and anthropomorphism are used to explore human-animal relationships, tracing our own evolution alongside these mysterious creatures as we worshipped, feared, and domesticated them.
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
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