ARTastic inspiration for April comes to you from
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Australian Indigenous Artist,
Trevor Nickolls with his piece Warmun
Mandala.
A little about Trevor
Nickolls
Born 1949, Adelaide, South
Australia, Trevor Nickolls is a significant “urban” Aboriginal artist who has
been working as an artist since the 1970’s. He has inspired and influenced many
artists. He is
represented in collections of all of the major art museums and galleries in
Australia as well as in collections in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the
United States of America and Canada.
Trevor Nickolls' work is
innovative and unique. His work often shows a complex iconography with many
layers of meaning. A major theme in his art is “Dreamtime to Machinetime” a
theme which articulates the cultural transition which many Aboriginal people
have undertaken in their journey from their traditional cultural heritage of
living in the Dreamtime, into the world of mechanisation and technology. Trevor
Nickoll’s work often presents various interactions between these two different
worlds or shows the dilemma of living within both. Subject matter includes the
spirituality of the Aboriginal people and their interrelationship to land, sea,
sky and cosmos; where people and elements are seen as integrated rather than
separate.
Trevor has had
interactions with other artists, including Aboriginal artists like Dinny Nolan
and Warmun artist Rover Thomas with whom he shared the spotlight as the two
artists representing Australia at the 1990 Venice Biennale.
The criteria this month is to use these colours on your work.
Here is my page -
I really love this photo of Pete playing, so with these gorgeous colours of Trevor's work I really enjoyed creating.
I chose black CS, & using bleach & a template (outside on the grass) I achieved this fab background...cleaned my template too!!
Then I reused a piece of backing paper that comes with Marg's goods & more painting with that great template, & the use of shapes, I really was happy with the result.
Do join in, there is such scope!
Hugs xx
