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Name: Tamara Lobley	School:
Title: Drowning	Medium: Installation
Description: An installation featuring two violins, one leant against a box corner, the other smashed. Self composed audio plays in background.

ARTIST STATEMENT

'Drowning' expresses my personal emotions in relation to colours and sound. My focus of art as knowledge is used in a personal context because I focused my reactions through a multitude of medias to create a cohesive piece portraying thalassophobia. By manipulating the dark colours in the background and the waves recording, the distressed emotion was able to create a mood for the audience. I have been influenced by James Bullough (inspiring me to explore distorted art), Julie Borden (who challenged me to purposefully consider how I installed artworks) and, Sarah Abare’s research which inspired me to explore sound enhancing the viewing of artworks.

ARTWORK PROCESS

I began by reflecting on the original stimulus experience. This lead me to investigate my focus of thalassophobia. I explored portrait studies from various artists as I knew I wanted to incorporate aspects of my own portrait to heighten this connection between my focus and the personal context of my work. In addition to this, I explored the expressive styles of Matisse and KwangHo Shin to allow me to express the fearful emotions surrounding my reactions to the stimulus. The violins come from my own experience in playing and I also used this to compose audio to enhance the installation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tamara Lobley

Tamara Lobely has studied Visual Art for her entire high school career. In addition to this, Tamara has also been frequently involved in various other arts, from playing violin and singing in choir to performing in the annual school musicals. Tamara is a highly skilled artist who will often look to research to inspire her experimentation. She is passionate about using mixed media and combining abstract techniques and processes to produce something new and innovative. Also skilled in written works, Tamara always makes a concerted effort to write statements that engage the audience and allow them to ponder own reactions.