WAYNE QUILLIAM
Regeneration
These creations reflect the spatio-temporal conditions of cultural practice of Aboriginal people throughout Australia. The work does not depict ritual knowledge with legible forms, but rather layered, abbreviated, vibratory forms harmonious with Mother Earth.
To quantify the loss of totems and cultural knowledge during natural devastation and global pandemics, these works are a visual representation deciphering art and culture, individualistic faith will sometimes challenge the collective belief in an evolutionary changing system.
Combined with regeneration of mind and body as a conceptual experience each and every human being considers during their existence the perception of creation, the belief in a divine entity an eon old debate, reality, we are born of the earth, we walk the earth and we return to the earth.
In isolation I am able to articulate and record the memories, the emotions, the complex visions absorbed by congruous interactions with people, culture and the earth. If this is the case, how can I truly believe my art idealistic, one of a kind, unique? Is my work a process of continuous inner evolution and if so, can my creative spirit overcome the contaminated boundaries that threaten to poison the purity of future creations.
My work challenges the myths of a culture frozen in time, in some idyllic pre-contact state. The visual narrative instigates confronting commentary on the ideology of an ancient culture evolving in contemporary society whilst the physical images conjure a conceptual environment in which primeval connotations are challenged. Indigenous culture has been compressed and categorized with the advancement of civilization and with that a prescriptive view that isolates and divides.
Dance of Our Ancestors
These creations reflect the spatio-temporal conditions of cultural practice of Aboriginal people throughout Australia. The work does not depict ritual knowledge with legible forms, but rather layered, abbreviated, vibratory forms harmonious with Mother Earth.
To quantify the loss of totems and cultural knowledge during natural devastation and global pandemics, these works are a visual representation deciphering art and culture, individualistic faith will sometimes challenge the collective belief in an evolutionary changing system.
Combined with regeneration of mind and body as a conceptual experience each and every human being considers during their existence the perception of creation, the belief in a divine entity an eon old debate, reality, we are born of the earth, we walk the earth and we return to the earth.
In isolation I am able to articulate and record the memories, the emotions, the complex visions absorbed by congruous interactions with people, culture and the earth. If this is the case, how can I truly believe my art idealistic, one of a kind, unique? Is my work a process of continuous inner evolution and if so, can my creative spirit overcome the contaminated boundaries that threaten to poison the purity of future creations.
My work challenges the myths of a culture frozen in time, in some idyllic pre-contact state. The visual narrative instigates confronting commentary on the ideology of an ancient culture evolving in contemporary society whilst the physical images conjure a conceptual environment in which primeval connotations are challenged. Indigenous culture has been compressed and categorized with the advancement of civilization and with that a prescriptive view that isolates and divides.