........ gonna visit the Art gallery today - having to 'stretch out' the fun a little.......
Rebel says it's good - she is an artist, specialising in ceramics, particularly ceramic bowls.
..........it's interesting, as so much of art is decorational - which of course I understand - like the many art galleries around St Ives in Cornwall for example. **see my blog from the summer featured on my Cornwall blog.
But they are just full of the same old scenes of pretty beaches and coastline - it's nice to put on your wall - (and crazily expensive - priced for the rich visitors and second homers) - but it doesn't really 'say' anything or tell a story..........
I was telling Rebel about Jaki - the only interesting artist displaying in St Ives the day I went, as her art was a strange and beautiful portrayal of the female body.
.........and maybe art should say something - like maybe showing how the environment is being affected in these beautiful coastlines for example...........it got me thinking again because Rebel was telling me of the time she was homeless, living in a tent near the beach, and she would go along the beach picking up all the bits of micro plastic - in a day she picked up enough to fill one of her ceramic bowls.
The baby turtles see the plastic floating in the water and think it's food, so their bellies get full of plastic but they then starve to death .......
She said she wanted to make an art work from it - to demonstrate the effects of pollution and I said wow! .......this is exactly what I'm talking and thinking about.......perhaps - sometimes - this is what art could be...........
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
There was a featured exhibition by Dylan Sarra an Indigenous artist who comes from Bundaberg.
It was called - Land
A thoughtful look on the 'First Nation' or 'blacks' perspective (their name for the Aborigine) and the 'whites' perspective of the land and how they see it.
For the indigenous peole it was a home a place they were part of and changes flowed.
It's interesting how they don't see the 'Southern Cross' constellation, They see the 'Emu's footprint'.
The indigenous people see them riding in with horses and goods etc. etc.....
It was a look into the human aspect.......
Art with a message
And a piece ( a film shot in 8mm) by Alana Hunt of a failed collinisation project and the disasttrous effects on the environment that attempts to control the water supply had made......
.... 'A little drop of water....'
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**excert from blog - Summer 2025
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Art
Art
A trip to find some inspiring art and maybe a collaborator for my Medicines project
Pre. St Ives, my thoughts as I dread the trip:
What is Art?
To me art is expression. It is an outlet for your thoughts and feelings. So it can be joyful or sad or it can be expressing thoughts that want to express something or that want to protest against something.
Art is often benign, in that it exists to look pretty - but maybe the artist was feeling something when they created it, an outlet for their joy at the time. That kind of art can give pleasure to another person.
Some art seems to capture a mood. It may not be the mood that the artist had at the time of creation but it might create a different mood in the mind of each person that views it.
Some art seems to capture a mood. It may not be the mood that the artist had at the time of creation but it might create a different mood in the mind of each person that views it.
In that way, I suppose artwork can be a portal or a conveyor to pass on a mood, a feeling or a thought which gets altered.
Writing does this, but art is more subtle. One dimensional? or is it the converse to writing
Words can put pictures into your head.
Art can put words into your head - if it says something
I am often sceptical when it comes to art. I look at a lot of artwork hung in galleries, with the prices underneath and think 'this is just being churned out to make money'
Even the art that looks like its trying to be subversive. I think back to the art shop in Truro - The artist xxxx - had created a painting of King Charles with some amusing 'digs'. It seemed to be making fun of the monarchy. ironic. to me it felt a bit fake. Maybe that is a fault in me. My cynicism.
Other art forms - film have more dimensions. We are given Words and pictures to invoke thoughts.
Drizzle in St Ives
I am still alive
The light here is different they say
but in what way?
Post:
So we stroll down the hill towards the streets that are packed with people in a busy hellish hive of holiday makers consuming drinks and ice creams and useless crap from souvenir shops. We visit the art shops and they are all filled with beach scenes and beautiful paintings of the sea and the rocks and it is all so so boring. We meet a lady who tells us about a picture she remembers:
She directs us to the chapel where above we meet the young robot, almost Stepford in their frightened attitude - I see in her eyes the fear in the pit of her stomach. Then we meet the lady with her wonderful chaotic paintings that are so interesting. The first real art I have seen in Cornwall - what a gem
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