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To View on Otago Polytechnic School of Art website click: SITE 2012

DISPROPORTIONATE MANNEQUINS – MISANTHROPIC CHILDREN – VIRAL JEWELLERY – INCONGRUENT PAINTING – CINEMATIC PHOTOGRAPHS – BEHEMOTHIC PLAYSTATION – 50 graduating students from the DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART try to make sense of ART, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING. SITE – the annual exhibition – studios are GUTTED and FILLED WITH ART.The school doors are THROWN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Saturday 17^th November 10.00 – 4.00, Monday 19^th November 12.00 – 4.00, Tuesday 20^thNovember 12.00 – 4.00, Wednesday 21^st November 12.00 – 4.00, Thursday 22^nd November 12.00 – 4.00. Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, Riego Street Dunedin.

DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART is New Zealand’s oldest art school. DSA runs a three year BACHELOR OF VISUAL ARTS degree majoring in Ceramics, Electronic Arts, Jewellery and Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture or Textiles. There is a HOSTof post graduate programmes including the FLAGSHIP two year MASTER OF FINE ARTS. www.facebook.com/DunedinSchoolofArt

(image credit: Claire Peters, Stratums, 2012)

Claire Peters Cumulus

This series of painting investigate accumulation and consumerism through painting by collage. Multiple layers of paint accumulate upon the canvas leaving impressions of their photographic source. These motifs mix, weave and then evolve into new forms and layers that build up the visual image and become memories that reoccur while painting.

Although these motifs are abstract they still refer to representational objects. Man made objects include but not limited to MRI scans, machinery parts, cosmetics, plastic rubbish, casino lights, clutter in a vintage shop and candy. These man made objects are mixed with motifs that reference the body, for example internal organs and cellular structures. As I accumulate my paintings the motifs become more abstracted from their source material to the stage that I have my own language of accumulation.

I am interested in how we are unable to remove ourselves from this cycle of consuming and accumulating. By making paintings that investigate these two processes, I have to consume materials to construct each painting and as each painting is finished they then accumulate in my studio. There is no way to remove ones self from this continual cycle.

To view the Cumulus series click here.