ARTWORK DETAILS

Tottie Stubbs
Homeless? Painting
‘Homeless?’ is an installation work that includes an oil painted soft sculpture pillow positioned on a vintage armchair.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Homeless? challenges the deeply engrained and idealised image of a functional family. Because you can love the image of home, all while despising the memories within. I’ve come to realize that a 'home' isn’t about how many millions it cost, or how many kilometers from the beach it sits. By transforming a traditional oil painting into a three-dimensional object placed on a vintage armchair, I’m hoping the physicality of a domestic cushion – with its associations of comfort – will engage my audience to consider their domestic life – and how functional – or dysfunctional – their family is, masked in a false perfection.

ARTWORK PROCESS

Homeless? is an oil painting on a soft sculpture, displayed on a vintage armchair. The work is displayed as an installation and was developed as a traditional oil painting before being cut from its frame. This transformation into a contemporary artwork on a pedestal – the armchair – to provoke conversation about one of the largest social problems of modern life – the broken home.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tottie Stubbs

Tottie Stubbs has an interest in traditional painting mediums used in innovative ways. She uses her art as a form of therapy to communicate deeply personal ideas in mixed medium paintings and installation. Past works have focused on ideas relating to mental health, childhood and family memories. She would like to pursue a career in Visual Art, creating her own paintings or working in the art therapy field, and she is intending on studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts at University.