- Title
- Reconnection: an exploration of Australian landscape beyond history and myth
- Creator
- Barnes, John Robert
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- Reconnection - an Exploration of Australian Landscape Beyond History and Myth is an investigation into whether the materials and processes of landscape-focussed studio research, structured on an experiential foundation, can act as a portal of connection with nature for an arguably disconnected humanity. My direct experience of the land is central to Reconnection but the studio is the place where imagination and labour operated as complementary processes to produce the seven series of paintings that form the exhibition. The Australian landscape is the constant reference through which I have attempted to engage an audience with the ideas and emotions that underpin this visual exploration. This exegesis aims to establish the personal, philosophical, environmental, historic and intellectual background in which to position the exhibition. From within this context I explore notions of belonging and connection to place and by examining the conceptual and material particularities of each series, I have tried to reveal the framework on which they are constructed and how they inter-act to form a self-contained whole. Throughout Reconnection I have attempted to assess the continuing relevance of landscape painting within the plurality of contemporary art practice by examining and questioning its changing forms and focus within non-Indigenous Australian art since colonisation, as this is the testing ground for my works. This project is founded on my own experience and history and so to venture into the complexities of Indigenous artistic production with which I have had little direct personal involvement, is to go beyond its scope. Within this research and completed body of paintings I have sought to establish a point of connection between nature and a viewing audience while questioning the abilities of landscape painting to act as a communicative medium in the exchange of ideas and emotion.
- Subject
- landscape painting; Australian landscape
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929483
- Identifier
- uon:10592
- Rights
- Copyright 2011 John Robert Barnes
- Language
- eng
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