Tails & tales
Date
2007-09-14
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Masters
Abstract
Tails & Tales is a collection of work that explores the construction of identity within a contemporary painting practice. Based on an autobiographical use of my own body as source material, this series of paintings and drawings incorporates narrative strategies of representation alongside imagery that is reminiscent of childhood states of being.This thesis exhibition and support paper explore the liminal period of pre-adolescence and poses questions about the positing of identity. There is a focus on the construction of masculinities and sexualities, with a particular interest in how cultural, social, and moral norms are encoded into being.
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nostalgia, figure, painting, childhood, masculinity, sexuality, queer, autobiography, gender, juvenalia, narrative, male figure
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Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A)
Department
Art and Art History
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Art and Art History