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Artist Statement:
ARTIST STATEMENT
For the Kuranda Arts
Cooperative group art
exhibition, Tablelands,
Perimeters and Parameters,
Tableland Regional Gallery,
Atherton, Far North
Queensland. Feb 5-28, 2010.
My work explores unique design
elements and characteristics
of various organic vegetation
(plants, plant life, flora,
foliage, undergrowth) growing
on the Tableland. Imagery has
been initiated and developed
from referencing my own
photographic material taken in
this environment. Literally,
perimeters and parameters are
first set within the camera
frame shoot then arranged
within my chosen art forms
where flexibility is provided
in the arrangement of separate
components into a coherent
whole. Painting and grid-like
surfaces from paper
manipulation, arrangement
processes along with assembly
formations imply mapping
territory, boundaries,
multifaceted planes and a
parallel dual realm of the
two-dimensional and
three-dimensional. It is where
a diversity of observed unique
characteristics of extracted
essences such as colour and
tone as well as organic and
geometric shapes are
reflected.
The works represent intimacy,
relationships and a communion
with nature's higher energy
life force and verve.
Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
How would I describe my work?
Spiritual/Abstract/Archetypal
Expressionism. Using
multiple/mixed mediums,
connections, relationships &
unity are explored through
visual language elements,
symbology, between one'...
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Artist Exhibitions:
INDIVIDUAL Exhibitions
2009 - April 24 - May 31,
Toured: Elevating the
Spirit,(selected) Main Space,
Umbrella Studio, Contemporary
Arts, Townsville, Qld
2007 July-Oct, Toured:
Elevating The Spirit,
Sugarama Gallery ASIM,
Mourilyan, Qld
2007 - May-June, Elevating the
Spirit,(Selected - Community
Exhibitions Program) Cairns
Regional Gallery, Qld;
1994 - Figure Works,
Drawings...
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Artist Galleries:
Artropica Innisfail Studio
Gallery,
33 Rankin Street
Innisfail, QLD. Australia
617 40611747
http:/www.artropica.com.au
Kuranda Arts Cooperative
Kuranda, QLD. Australia...
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Artist Reviews:
WRITTEN REVIEW by Karen van
Harskamp, Cairns Post timeout,
p.18 Thursday 21.06.07
About Madsen-Pietsch's latest
solo exhibition work,
Elevating the Spirit:
RAISING SPIRITS
In seeking and making meaning
people draw on patterns - of
form, action and feeling - to
define the indescribable and
seemingly random nature ...
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Collections:
Public Collections: Johnstone
Shire Council, Innisfail, Qld,
Australia
Good Counsel College,
Innisfail, Qld, Australia
Private Collections: Australia
Overseas: America, England &
Europe
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch Biography:
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Age
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52
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
3
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Discovering, learning, creating. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Mixed Media
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Fauvism - (1898 - 1908)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Ian Fairweather
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Kite Flying
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
????? ... thinking ... will get back on that question, maybe! |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I have just revised my original brief answer to a lengthy one, to this question asked on this site. Its a personal and reflective question and which I now feel ready to respond to.
Why? I say I didn't 'become' an artist. It's a birth rite. The artist was and always is within me, visualising, playing, shaping, forming, manifesting the inner into the outer. A child learns best by playing, exploring, dreaming, imagining, creating and inventing - all of which I did in massive doses, and what now too often, in today's social controlled environments, soon supress the 'art of play' otherwise known as 'creativity', as one rises up through the education systems and social community ranks of compliance and the norm acceptance.
Why did/do I bother to nuture/feed the 'artist within' rather than pursue other worldly, better paid careers would be a more fair and appropriate question to ask in today's capitalist society agenda!
As the youngest child of 5 siblings and the only girl, growing up in the 50's/60's on an Australian rural Victorian country farm, I was pretty much left to my own devices for something to occupy my mind! There was no TV in the household until I was 7, and then there was very limited access to a radio or telephone. Outside 'communication' agenda was strictly controlled by authoritarian 'christian' parents. So what was a child to do besides the daily farm work chores, and there were many of them, was to use my imagination, go off in a dreamworld! I also had the solitary freedom to physcially wander all over the farm countryside and observe nature at its best.
There were no artist mentors in the family. Mother was craft orientated always providing clothes and food for the family. I remember clearly (around the age of 7, 8 or 9 I don't know exactly) rummaging around through the spare storage room where my Mum had kept all 'outdated' items and discovering some drawings done by her, (guessing done before she ever married) and a spark went off in my brain saying I will be a practicing artist when I grow up. I think I learnt more 'visually' as effective 'talking' communication and self-expression was not on my parents agenda! Survival and hard work it was in those days - to provide the necessities in life as there were no social security handouts back then.
It wasn't until I was in my first year at high school (age 10-11) and had exposure to my first 'real art' teacher, did I realize I had any acknowledged 'natural' artistic abilities and I found the art challenges uniquely satisfying. It allowed for my self-expression, something that was never talked about or encouraged in the home life back in those early days!
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| Your Personal Biography |
BIOGRAPHY
Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch, born 1956, Ararat, grew up on a country farm, near Hall's Gap in the Grampians, Victoria. Between formal qualifications Madsen-Pietsch worked and travelled interstate gaining life experiences. She settled in Innisfail, North Qld, 1985 to teach and raise a family with her Far North Qld indigenous husband Cliff Madsen (Kuku Yalangi Aboriginal clan).
An exemplary art role model in the community, Madsen-Pietsch has served voluntarily in her community in many art roles/positions i.e. as an administrator, steward, judge, organizer and coordinator to many professional development workshops, local exhibitions and more recent as curator and Flying Arts regional representative.
Parallel to a long art teaching career is Madsen-Pietsch's continual commitment to developing her professional art practice in several directions. She has numerous drawing, painting, fibre and sculpture awards and regional exhibition achievements behind her.
Madsen-Pietsch, self employed, is also the founder, co-owner and creative director of Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery, a retail art and framing business, which she has successfully run and operated since 1997.
Formal qualifications
2003 Certificate 4 in Public Art, Tropical North Queensland TAFE, Cairns, Qld.
1982 Graduate Diploma in (Secondary) Education, Bendigo CAE, Vic. Majors: Art & Craft (D)
1977 Diploma in Art & Design, Deakin University, Geelong Vic.
1974 TOP Tertiary Orientated Program (equivalent Yr 12) - 9 Subjects (8 x Art) Stawell Technical School, Vic.
1973 HSC Art, Luther College, Croydon, Melbourne.
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