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Focusing on using found objects and trash from the everyday🗑. The waste we produce. Taking these objects and placing them randomly to construct a silhouette of a city skyline🏙. The idea behind it is the highlight the issues of consumer consumption and the excess of human waste which construct the essence of human activity focusing on the rise of human waste within our society.
The themes I have been looking at and experimenting with, is the idea that everyone has multiple personas that we dip in and out of on a day to day bases based on our social context, whether that be a specific location or people we are associated with. Through using the persona of 'Luna' I was able to video and capture these two personas. Manipulating the footage to have the characters facing each other or almost ghosting each other's movements.
It’s Just Trash is a body of work consisting of multiple miscellaneous objects of which were found in public spaces. The body of work is an extension of previous works which were also focussed on painting landscapes. I have decided to push this idea and looking more closely into the materials of which I could paint on, through deciding to push these limits it has lead to me wanting no control over the material I paint on.
In this artwork I have chosen to interpret the most visible and most hidden parts of myself to reflect on the complex nature of the human body, mind, and soul. This anatomical self-portrait uses the most visible part of me, my face, as the focal point. Panning back, I have peeled off layer after layer to reveal the mechanics of this face. By taking a deeper look into what I consist of, I remove the element of aesthetics and individualism to become ‘it’, removing personal pronouns of ‘me’ and ‘I’
‘Pencil it in' is an ongoing artwork that was inspired by a project initiated towards the end of 2014. The exposed lead of carpenters pencils have been delicately carved with artists knives into intricate, abstract designs representing promiscuous, and juxtaposed aspects of my own life. Life is chaotic and arbitrary, allowing each individual to establish their own identity.
about.
Monique Bedwell is a Sydney based interdisciplinary artist completing BFA (Hons) at UNSW who delves into issues of consumption and consumerism within her practice. Her mediums vary in her quest to capture different components of these topics which include drawing, 2D animation, sculpture, painting, performance (video) and interactive installation are considered equally significant to Bedwell’s practice. World travels and everyday interactions are primary influences for Bedwell particularly how unique interactions enable her capacity to learn—developing a deeper understanding of self and representing this in her works is considered a perk. Her work has taken a shift to dealing with these big issues to include the broader community, exploring elements of a social practice as a means of communicating her work. Finding ways to challenge how a community observes a landscape and their impact they have on it, focussing heavily on materiality of objects used to determine the outcomes of her works.
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