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Examining the link between the artist’s world and their practice
Examining the link between the artist’s world and their practice
Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 11 and 12 visual art students
What will I learn?
What will I learn?
Welcome to this Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Class – Examining an artist's practice.
You will hear from artist, Lachlan Warner, as he shares a number of his artworks and explains the relationship between his spiritual world, his artmaking practice and his most recent artworks.
You will:
watch the videos and record notes
analyse the relationship between Lachlan Warner’s artworks, artmaking practice and his view of the world
apply your understanding and express a point of view in short written responses
refine written responses by sharing them with your teacher and redrafting your writing based on teacher feedback.
Before you begin
Before you begin
Make sure you have a pen and your theory books on hand to make notes.
You may like to review the scaffolds and resources on the visual arts teaching resources page of the NSW Department of Education, the NESA 2019 HSC exam pack and Notes from the Marking Centre.
Watch
Watch
Watch Lachlan Warner – artist, artwork and world.
Record the answers to the following questions in your theory books as you watch:
List any important formative facts about the artist’s life.
What belief system does Lachlan Warner hold?
What expressive form/s does Warner work in?
Describe his artwork.
What themes or ideas is Warner interested in exploring?
List any important points about the world/context of his works.
What materials and techniques has he experimented with in his practice?
What response does he want from his audience?
What is one important quote from Warner that expresses who he is as an artist?
Why does Warner choose to begin with his most recent artworks when explaining his practice?
Lachlan Warner – artist, artwork and world
Duration: 07:23Analyse
Analyse
Analyse the relationship between Warner’s personal response to the world, his artmaking practice and his artworks by answering the following questions in your visual arts process diary:
How was Warner’s artwork 'Shelf of 5 Pink Skulls' influenced by the time and place in which it was created?
Give yourself 15 minutes to write this, remember quality over quantity is the key.
2010, Conny Dietzschold Gallery
What materials (what the artists used to create the work), choices ( the reason for it, the meaning behind it) and actions (how it was created, including techniques, if known, and how it was displayed) are evident in Warner’s artwork below?
Cardboard, gold leaf, shellac, 200 x 800 cm.
How do the 2 artworks, Smile of the Buddha and Buddha in Suburbia, Compost Buddha, represent the development of Warner’s artmaking practice? Refer to this scaffold to assist you to develop a response.
2007, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University
Buddha in Suburbia, Compost Buddha
2005, Liverpool Regional GalleryApply and express
Apply and express
Apply your understanding of Lachlan Warner’s artmaking practice by responding to the following questions.
What can you infer about the relationship between the artwork and the audience in his artwork, 99 Buddhas?
Refer to the artist practice scaffold for some more questions to consider.
2002 Sculpture in the City
Explain how ‘The 2nd Question of Mahammad Bouazizi and Thich Quang Doc’ is a response to the artwork's world.
The 2nd Question of Mahammad Bouazizi and Thich Quang Doc
Digital print on art paper2012, Muswellbrook Photography Award Finalists Exhibition[sic – artist's spelling]Use the cultural frame to analyse Lachlan Warner’s artmaking practice. The frames scaffold will help you explicitly explore how to apply the cultural frame. Refer to the 3 works below in your response.
In a range of festive colours, postures and mudras mixed media 188 x 150 x 62 cm 2001, S H Irwin Gallery
Carcano aluminium foil, mirror glass, MDF140 x 97 x 97 cm2005, National Gallery of Australia
Cardboard, gold leaf, shellac, dimensions variable, figures are life-sized
Share and refine
Share and refine
Share your written responses with your teacher.
Refine your ideas by redrafting your response based on teacher feedback.
Extension
Extension
Alexis Potts – Visual Arts Process Diary
Watch 2018 HSC Visual arts student, Alexis Potts, explaining the concepts and processes behind her Photomedia Body of Work.
Alexis Potts – interview
Duration: 07:33Describe 3 choices Alexis Potts made about her artmaking practice.
How has Alexis Potts represented ideas through the use of colour and symbol in her artmaking practice?
Use the subjective frame to investigate the ways in which Alexis Potts has responded to her personal world. Refer to the 2 works below in your response. This frame scaffold will help you explore these ideas.
Exsaturated Deutan – Alexis Potts
Compare how Warner and Potts have expressed meaning through their artmaking practices. In your response, refer to any of the images of artworks supplied in this lesson.
Congratulations!
You have completed this
Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Class.
Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
NSW Department of Education Stage 6 Visual Arts Teaching and Learning Resources including Frames, Conceptual Framework and Practice Scaffolds.
Shelf of 5 Pink Skulls created by Lachlan Warner.
The Forest III, 2014 created by Lachlan Warner.
Smile of the Buddha created by Lachlan Warner.
Buddha in Suburbia, Compost Buddha created by Lachlan Warner.
99 Buddhas created by Lachlan Warner.
The 2nd Question of Mahammad Bouazizi and Thich Quang Doc created by Lachlan Warner.
Blake Prize for Religious Art created by Lachlan Warner.
National Sculpture Award created by Lachlan Warner.
The Forest IV, 2017 created by Lachlan Warner.
Alexis Potts, Visual Arts Process Diary, ARTEXPRESS 2019. © Alexis Potts, reproduced and communicated with permission. Provided all acknowledgements are retained, these images may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia only.
Exsaturated Deutan, Alexis Potts, ARTEXPRESS 2019. © Alexis Potts, reproduced and communicated with permission. Provided all acknowledgements are retained, these images may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia only.
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