Understory
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.faculty | Arts | |
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.summary | <p><strong>Research Background</strong></p> <p>Collaborations amongst artists have a rich International history in the Visual Arts. Collaboration amongst Indigenous, and non-Indigenous artists in Australia is a notion with a much smaller history. Such collaborations have become a special annual focus of the Gosford Regional Art Gallery as a means of showcasing artworks about Reconciliation, as it has impacted Australian culture and politics from the historic 1967 Referendum, and later, in the High Court Mabo decision.</p> <p><strong>Research Contribution</strong></p> <p>The work ‘Understory’ investigates the notion of ‘Land’ as seen through the eyes of one Indigenous and two non-Indigenous artists. The work fuses two distinct approaches to Landscape painting traditionally at odds with one another. The first of these is the traditional Aboriginal ‘Dot’ painting technique, and the second encompasses the more Euro-centric approach of ‘En Plein air’ and ‘Allaprima’ painting. ‘Understory’ fuses these disparate approaches to landscape painting, in such a way that no hierarchy of styles prevails. Here the notion of Reconciliation becomes quite literally embedded in the physicality of the work, whereby, culturally and historically different approaches to landscape painting can be seen to demonstrate a unique aesthetic indebted to a reconciliation of both Western, and Indigenous styles.</p> <p><strong>Research Significance</strong></p> <p>The significance of ‘Understory’ is that it represents an amalgamation of stylistic treatments imbued in both Indigenous and Western paradigms of painting, into a single unified work. The title of the work similarly represents two separate notions attached to the land by Indigenous, and non-Indigenous cultures. To Indigenous culture, dots are applied in paintings to ‘cover stories’ being told, and ‘understory’ is also the non-Indigenous term used to designate the open space afforded beneath a canopy of trees. The work’s value is attested to by the fact that the work was selected for hanging in the Gosford Regional Gallery Reconciliation exhibition.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.abstract | <p>The work ‘Understory’ investigates the notion of ‘Land’ as seen through the eyes of one Indigenous and two non-Indigenous artists. The work fuses two distinct approaches to Landscape painting traditionally at odds with one another. The first of these is the traditional Aboriginal ‘Dot’ painting technique, and the second encompasses the more Euro-centric approach of ‘En Plein air’ and ‘Allaprima’ painting. ‘Understory’ fuses these disparate approaches to landscape painting, in such a way that no hierarchy of styles prevails. Here the notion of Reconciliation becomes quite literally embedded in the physicality of the work, whereby, culturally and historically different approaches to landscape painting can be seen to demonstrate a unique aesthetic indebted to a reconciliation of both Western, and Indigenous styles.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.articleid | 1045 | |
| avondale-bepress.authors | Andy Collis | |
| avondale-bepress.authors | Richard Morris | |
| avondale-bepress.authors | Maria Watson-Trudgett | |
| avondale-bepress.context-key | 7392803 | |
| avondale-bepress.coverpage-url | https://research.avondale.edu.au/arts_creativeworks/51 | |
| avondale-bepress.document-type | creativework | |
| avondale-bepress.field.author_faculty_discipline | Arts | |
| avondale-bepress.field.comments | <p>Used with permission of the artists.</p> <p>The work submitted represents a collaborative project undertaken for the annual Reconciliation exhibition held at the Gosford Regional Gallery, Central Coast, NSW, Australia. The exhibition is held to coincide with National Reconciliation Week held between May 27 and June 3 each year across Australia.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.creator | <p><strong>Research Background</strong></p> <p>Collaborations amongst artists have a rich International history in the Visual Arts. Collaboration amongst Indigenous, and non-Indigenous artists in Australia is a notion with a much smaller history. Such collaborations have become a special annual focus of the Gosford Regional Art Gallery as a means of showcasing artworks about Reconciliation, as it has impacted Australian culture and politics from the historic 1967 Referendum, and later, in the High Court Mabo decision.</p> <p><strong>Research Contribution</strong></p> <p>The work ‘Understory’ investigates the notion of ‘Land’ as seen through the eyes of one Indigenous and two non-Indigenous artists. The work fuses two distinct approaches to Landscape painting traditionally at odds with one another. The first of these is the traditional Aboriginal ‘Dot’ painting technique, and the second encompasses the more Euro-centric approach of ‘En Plein air’ and ‘Allaprima’ painting. ‘Understory’ fuses these disparate approaches to landscape painting, in such a way that no hierarchy of styles prevails. Here the notion of Reconciliation becomes quite literally embedded in the physicality of the work, whereby, culturally and historically different approaches to landscape painting can be seen to demonstrate a unique aesthetic indebted to a reconciliation of both Western, and Indigenous styles.</p> <p><strong>Research Significance</strong></p> <p>The significance of ‘Understory’ is that it represents an amalgamation of stylistic treatments imbued in both Indigenous and Western paradigms of painting, into a single unified work. The title of the work similarly represents two separate notions attached to the land by Indigenous, and non-Indigenous cultures. To Indigenous culture, dots are applied in paintings to ‘cover stories’ being told, and ‘understory’ is also the non-Indigenous term used to designate the open space afforded beneath a canopy of trees. The work’s value is attested to by the fact that the work was selected for hanging in the Gosford Regional Gallery Reconciliation exhibition.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.custom_citation | <p>Collis, A., Morris, R., & Watson-Trudgett, M. (2015). <em>Understory</em> [Oil and acrylic on canvas]. Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Gosford, Australia.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.embargo_date | 2015-07-30T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.field.field_of_education | 10 Creative Arts | |
| avondale-bepress.field.for | 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting) | |
| avondale-bepress.field.ntro | Creative Work - Visual Art | |
| avondale-bepress.field.publication_date | 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.field.quality | Disseminated via nationally recognised outlet or entity | |
| avondale-bepress.field.reportable_items | Creative Work | |
| avondale-bepress.field.scale | Major | |
| avondale-bepress.field.source_publication | <p>This creative work was originally published as:</p> <p>Collis, A., Morris, R., & Watson-Trudgett, M. (2015). <em>Understory</em> [Oil and acrylic on canvas]. Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Gosford, Australia.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.staff_classification | Permanent | |
| avondale-bepress.keywords | painting | |
| avondale-bepress.keywords | collaboration | |
| avondale-bepress.keywords | Indigenous | |
| avondale-bepress.label | 51 | |
| avondale-bepress.native-url | https://research.avondale.edu.au/context/arts_creativeworks/article/1045/type/native/viewcontent | |
| avondale-bepress.publication-date | 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.publication-title | Arts Creative Works | |
| avondale-bepress.state | published | |
| avondale-bepress.submission-date | 2015-07-30T21:02:41Z | |
| avondale-bepress.submission-path | arts_creativeworks/51 | |
| avondale-bepress.title | Understory | |
| avondale-bepress.type | article | |
| dc.contributor.author | Watson-Trudgett, Maria | |
| dc.contributor.author | Morris, Richard | |
| dc.contributor.author | Collis, Andy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-01T00:23:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-01T00:23:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2015-07-30T21:02:41Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>The work ‘Understory’ investigates the notion of ‘Land’ as seen through the eyes of one Indigenous and two non-Indigenous artists. The work fuses two distinct approaches to Landscape painting traditionally at odds with one another. The first of these is the traditional Aboriginal ‘Dot’ painting technique, and the second encompasses the more Euro-centric approach of ‘En Plein air’ and ‘Allaprima’ painting. ‘Understory’ fuses these disparate approaches to landscape painting, in such a way that no hierarchy of styles prevails. Here the notion of Reconciliation becomes quite literally embedded in the physicality of the work, whereby, culturally and historically different approaches to landscape painting can be seen to demonstrate a unique aesthetic indebted to a reconciliation of both Western, and Indigenous styles.</p> | |
| dc.identifier.citation | <p>Collis, A., Morris, R., & Watson-Trudgett, M. (2015). <em>Understory</em> [Oil and acrylic on canvas]. Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Gosford, Australia.</p> | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/123456789/07392803 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_us | |
| dc.provenance | <p>This creative work was originally published as:</p> <p>Collis, A., Morris, R., & Watson-Trudgett, M. (2015). <em>Understory</em> [Oil and acrylic on canvas]. Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Gosford, Australia.</p> | |
| dc.rights | <p>Used with permission of the artists.</p> <p>The work submitted represents a collaborative project undertaken for the annual Reconciliation exhibition held at the Gosford Regional Gallery, Central Coast, NSW, Australia. The exhibition is held to coincide with National Reconciliation Week held between May 27 and June 3 each year across Australia.</p> | |
| dc.subject | painting | |
| dc.subject | collaboration | |
| dc.subject | Indigenous | |
| dc.title | Understory | |
| dc.type | Creative Work |
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