The topic of this paper is animals in painting and the investigative process undertaken by the artist Vanessa Barbay during her practice--led Ph.D.. Her aim was to discover a way to present deceased animals that retai...The topic of this paper is animals in painting and the investigative process undertaken by the artist Vanessa Barbay during her practice--led Ph.D.. Her aim was to discover a way to present deceased animals that retained their agency as individuals by challenging the objectifying nature of representation. The foundation of this method was the collaboration between artist and dead animal subjects through harnessing the natural decomposition of the subject in order to generate their image. A related stream of Barbay＇s research was learning about the art and culture of Kunwinjku speaking artists living in Kunbarlanja Western Amhem Land where artists have painted images of animals on rock shelters and on bark from ancient through to contemporary times. The significance of their form of animal representation is a mythopoeic relationship between locally found pigments and animal bodies. Paintings are considered as collaboration between matter, subject, and artist, which Barbay extends in her current work centred on collaborative painting involving more than one artist.展开更多
文摘The topic of this paper is animals in painting and the investigative process undertaken by the artist Vanessa Barbay during her practice--led Ph.D.. Her aim was to discover a way to present deceased animals that retained their agency as individuals by challenging the objectifying nature of representation. The foundation of this method was the collaboration between artist and dead animal subjects through harnessing the natural decomposition of the subject in order to generate their image. A related stream of Barbay＇s research was learning about the art and culture of Kunwinjku speaking artists living in Kunbarlanja Western Amhem Land where artists have painted images of animals on rock shelters and on bark from ancient through to contemporary times. The significance of their form of animal representation is a mythopoeic relationship between locally found pigments and animal bodies. Paintings are considered as collaboration between matter, subject, and artist, which Barbay extends in her current work centred on collaborative painting involving more than one artist.
