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Rabbit Behind Rocks (When I grow up, I want to be...) Vol.1 [Artists' book]
2010
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Abstract
Research Background
Many artists maintain motivation and practice within a singular medium. Meanwhile, for others, studio practice is constantly in flux. Contemporary practice has seen how printmaking has embraced hybrid activity that has directed new approaches to studio production and highlighted experimental haptic activity associated with exploring repetition in print and the uncanny in new sculptural realms.
‘Rabbit behind Rocks’ (When I Grow Up, I Want to Be…) is part of a series of artists’ books investigating inherited gender stereotypes formed in childhood through play. The title comes from a colloquial name when referring to a particular disruptive pattern camouflage used by Australian Military Forces and makes the connection between innocent play and war games.
Research Contribution
The research utilises interdisciplinary practice to focus specifically on issues of identity. In this folio, mixed media processes are used to develop sculptural forms. Works in this folio combine process to form a hybrid practice, investigating the aura of repetition connected to the inherent tensions of print process, codex structures, and imagery utilised.
Research Significance
The significance of this research is in its examination of a range of interdisciplinary approaches to process in which ideas are allied to process and mixed media technique, resulting in hybrid practice.
The work’s significance is indicated by their inclusion in several peer-reviewed group shows, including.
1) Inclusion in international and national exhibitions.
2013-12: Bound, Artist Book Collective, Divided We Fall Project, Leeds, England, Gallery Tour of UK.
2010: Cabinet of Curiosities, 13th International Artist Book Fair, Leeds University, Leeds, England, UK.
2010: Little Window of Opportunity, Port Jackson Press Australia, Fitzroy, VIC.
2) Acquired into the following collections, including
The Leeds Library, England, Brooklyn Art Library, New York, Brunswick Street Gallery, Australia.
4) Representation of the work in several peer reviews in journals and catalogues, including
Louise Atkinson, Bound, Artist Book Collective, Book Arts Newsletter, No.78, Dec - Jan, Centre For Fine Print Research, University West of England, England, UK, (2012): 1.
Details
- Title
- Rabbit Behind Rocks (When I grow up, I want to be...) Vol.1 [Artists' book]
- Creators
- Darren Bryant - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Format
- Popup artists' book containing pencil and collage
- Identifiers
- 991013174813302368
- Copyright
- Copyright Darren Bryant, 2010
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Resource Type
- Other creative works; Artists' book