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SCULPTURE​
PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
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THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
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‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
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This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
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THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
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‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
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This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
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THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
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‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
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This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
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Harrison Waed See
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Dr Harrison Waed See (b. 1990) is an artist, researcher and emerging curator interested in allegorical landscapes as a means to explore cultural divergence and plurality—juxtaposing historical symbolisms with videogame tropes.
See has undertaken 7 solo shows, 7 artist residencies, 3 curatorial projects and 8 collaborative exhibitions in Perth and Asia, as well as participated in multiple group exhibitions. Originally an industrial designer, See completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in 2015 after receiving the Louise Macfie Painting Prize. In 2016, he was awarded a New Colombo Plan (NPC) scholarship that funded his honours research in Shanghai, after receiving 1st class honours, See extended his NPC funding and returned to China for a 3-month artist’s residency in Xiamen. In 2019, See returned to ECU after being awarded a Research Training Program Scholarship and completed his practice-led PhD on dialogic cross-cultural collaboration.
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He is currently a researcher and lecturer at Edith Cowan University.
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