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The Emerging Artists Development Program [EADP] works with referees from the Special Circumstances Courts in Brisbane and has been running on “less than average” funds for years now. The program is mentor and relationship based and aims for the participants to expand their arts skills into canvas work, screen-printing and drawing. This is a unique program that over the past 5 years has given leadership in the arts and social services sectors in Brisbane and plays a significant part in the development of troubled youth, the growth of emerging artists and a positive application of the rule of law through the judicial system. 50/50 is a fundraiser exhibition bringing together emerging mid-career and developing artists. These artists donate their work to be sold by Silent Auction beginning at $50 with the intention of supporting Jugglers and the EADP. The exhibition organisers and curators are Yannick Blattner, Clinton Cunningham, Jaclyn Bates and Char Chamez. The opening night is February 3rd 2012. |
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Rebecca Daynes
Rebecca Daynes has developed an interdisciplinary practice fuelled by cultural research and subjective experience. Spanning a variety of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, video and sound, her practice is amalgamated by a formal aesthetic and deliberated approach.
Her recent paintings explore public constructs of identity, modes of self-representation in a digital age and the effects of social networking on identity. Through staged pose or gratuitous ornamentation her work questions the act of being socially conscious and the effect of intense self-awareness on self-representation.
Returning this contemporary form of self portraiture to traditional media, she draws a parallel between the constructed nature of both identity and the painting process, and highlights the permanence of Social Media’s deceptively transient means of expression.
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Rebecca Daynes, Prayer for a Third Arm, 2011
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Rebecca Daynes, Self-Portrait with Delilah, 2009
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James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1838 - 1903); Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874).
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