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Natasha Narain |
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Artist's Statement
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M
y work is drawn from and reveals my inner, experiential, psychic and cultural
space. Born and educated in India, I have traveled and lived in the UK and
Australia for the past 14 years. My work seeks to understand women’s lives by
opening and crossing boundaries to a universal, woman centered art. Of abuse,
domestic violence, miscarriage, loneliness, coupled with - the sensual, and the
Goddesses. An inner world of muffled struggles- within deceptively soft, cultural
bondages. Thus validating, unheard stories and silenced voices.
I transform domestic debris and junk into highly decorated painted sculptures.
My recent work uses wooden drawers, dolls, nails, beer bottle caps, textured
wool or sacred threads, sliced up tin can lids,, photographs of violated women,
aborted fetuses, used matchsticks, broken bangles, plastic eyes, torn out
scriptures from holy books, text, boxes, mirrors, sanitary napkins, grilles, cages,
obsessive patterning and free flowing automatic drawing. Of narrative outside
rational order with multiple experiences represented within one work. The dolls
are slowly empowering from submissive, reclining, withdrawn victims to confident
assertive individuals. Yet the penetration is invasive, harboring a darkness
framed by invisible rules and prohibitions.
I present my work through site specific Installations. Painted sculptures that
viewers can walk around and touch. Prayer wheels on the walls, to turn. A
Shrine with incense and candles, to light. Music and voice recordings across
cultures, of women at home/ with friends/ in bazaars/ humming/ crying and softly
talking. Artist’s books that look like Hindu prayer books but with contemporary
stories. Photographs of my dolls in narrative settings. I believe in more not less,
as a way of awakening all senses and perceptions.
I am drawn to Feminist and Outsider art. The handcrafted, the handmade, the
whole domestic as a venue for cultural change.
I hope to also help women’s organizations through the sale of my work and
produce art that is a worthy lifetimes contribution in itself.
Natasha Narain |
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Background
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I
was born and educated in India and lived in the UK & Melbourne but call Brisbane home. An Australian citizen since 1999, art is my life’s passion.
Educational Qualifications:
July to September 2005 Advanced Studio Workshop
Majena Mafe’s Studio
Mc Dowall Brisbane
January to June 2005 Advanced Painting Level 4
Brisbane Institute Of Art
Windsor Brisbane
1998 to 1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
Viswa Bharati University
Santiniketan
India
Exhibitions and Professional Practice:
October and April 2005 Solo Exhibitions
Brisbane Institute of Art
2000 to 2004 Travelled in Europe while based in London.
Paintings held in private collections.
1998 Courier Mail Art Show, 4 works accepted
1997 Lithograph prints accepted by
Paperwasp studio in New York
1995 Lithography at Australian print Workshop
Gertrude St. Fitzroy Melbourne
1993 Final year students exhibition
Viswa Bharati University, India
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