Artists Research

S1 W3-W4 inspiration

So Young Choi – Città Jeans collage

Korean artist, So Young Choi, was born in Busan, South Korea. He creates urban landscapes using second-hand denim jeans.
The use of bleach stain jeans transformed into realistic skies.

S1 W4 inspiration

Melinda Avokra – Women in fashion collage

Melina Avokra studied in the National School of Fine Arts and National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. She presents herself to the world and people.
“The main goal in my works is to provoke. To make the observer unconsciously think and discover something new and unknown. An endless dialogue between the spectator and the art. ” – Avokra”

Martin Wong

Martin Wong is a Chinese-American artist born in Portland Oregon, United State, 1946. He was raised in San Francisco, graduated in a degree in ceramics at Humboldt State University. However, he died in San Francisco, 1999. He worked on street portraitist with blends of social realism and visionary art styles. Martin Wong isn’t deaf but he does use ASL.
(‘Stanton near Forsyth Street‘ painting)

Peter Blume

Peter Blume is an American artist painter and sculptor. He was born in 1906, Smarhoń, Belarus. Blume died in 1992, New Milford, Connecticut, United States. His work explores folk art, precisionism, parisian purism, cubism, and surreaism.
(‘The Eternal City‘ painting)

František Kupka

František Kupka is a painter and graphic artist. He was born in Opočno, Czechia, 1871 and died in Puteaux, France, 1957. Kupka explored from base of realism to pure abstract work.
(‘Mme Kupka among Verticals’ painting)

Henri Martisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculpter but known as a painter. Matisse was born in , Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France, 1869. He died in Nice, France, 1954. He explored fauvism, impressionism, modern art, post-impressionism, modernism, neo-impressionism.

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauchenberg was an America painter and graphic artist. He was born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States, 1925. Died in Captiva, Florida, United States, 2008. Exploring pop art, modern art, abstract expressionism, neo-dada. and postmodernism.
(‘Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon’ by painting)

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall is a Russian-French artist born in Liozna, Belarus, 1887. He died in Saint Paul de Vence, France, 1985. He used a wide range of media such as painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries, and fine art prints.
(‘I and the Village’ painting)

René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist born in Lessines, Belgium, 1898. He died in Rue des Mimosas, Schaerbeek, Belgium, 1967. His artworks conduct surrealism, dada work, and modern art.
(‘The Lovers’ painting)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romantic painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. He was born in Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, 1775. Died in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom, 1851.
(‘The Angel Standing in the Sun’ painting)

Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley is an English painter. She was born in West Norwood, London, United Kingdom, 1931. She conducts, Op art, Modern art, and hard-edge painting.
(‘Nataraja’ painting)

Maia Cruz Palileo

Maia Cruz Palileo inspired me to start exploring my own personal archives. On the latest works, I wanted to have a glimpse of my ancestors from the Philippines. She navigates themes of migration through paintings, installations, sculptures, and drawings.
(‘FLORES, 2020’ painting)

Bambou Gili

Bambou Gili is a surrealist painter born in 1996. I’m interested in the way she creates a short story in her paintings. She experiments with colour and doesn’t rely on using the colour black. Gili expresses her feelings of loneliness, desire, and melancholy in America.
(‘Blue Summer (An Ode to Matthew Wong), 2020′ painting)

Timothy Lai

Timothy Lai was born Kota Bharu, Malaysia, 1987. He’s half Mexican and Chinese. This gave him an interest in Gauguin’s portrayal of Tahitians as “primitive” due to colors that helped start action. Lai paints real events or conversations between individuals, creating contorting bending figures.
(‘An Empathic Gesture, 2021′ painting)

Sasha Gordon

Sasha Gordon was born 1998. Gordon creates a utopia free of differences. She created characters that are similar to her, with ethnicity, sexuality, or body size. There’s a theme of Gordon’s paintings comes across as being watched. She creates backgrounds of predominantly white and heteronormative environments.
(‘Untitled, 2020‘ painting)

Susan Chen

Susan Chen was born was born and raised in Hong Kong. At the age of 12, she relocated to the United Kingdom for boarding school, creating awareness of the Western-centric nature of her academic background and upbringing. Chen is a figurative artist who creates stories of her experience with asian diaspora.
(‘Arnie’s, 2020‘ painting)

Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas was born in Cape Town, South Africa, 1953. She moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1976. Dumas works mainly with oil on canvas and oil on paper. There’s themes exploring race and sexuality, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness.
(‘Chlorosis, Love Sick, 1994‘ painting)

Star Gossage

Star Gossage lives and works on ancestral land at Pakiri, north of Auckland. Gossage is inspired by the coastal landscape of rural Pakiri, mixing local clay and ochres with oil paints. This unique technique creates earthy muted colours. Gossage has emotionally intense paintings that features dream-like tupuna figures that portrays memory and significance in the ancestry.
(‘Awhi Mai, 2013‘ painting)

Yowshien Kuo

Yowshien Kuo was born 1985. Growing up as a minority is always a dividing experience for Kuo, who split his time between St. Louis and Taipei. He describes being “intensely embarrassed or ashamed” of his Taiwanese identity. He emphasizes the significance of wellness for artists who were influenced of having to suffer physically and emotionally in practices.
(‘But Victor Denies the Similarities Between Himself and the Monster, 2019‘ painting)

Rubén Ortiz Torres

Rubén Ortiz Torres was born 1964. rtiz-Torres has produced such diverse works as feature films, 3D videos, paintings, sculptures, kinetic installations, photo-collages, and performances, all having to do with his personal experience of the world. Such as themes about conflict, misinterpretation, appropriation, fascination, resilience, and more.
(‘Shopper Hopper, 2016 and El grito (The Scream), 2014‘ painting)

S2 inspiration

Star Gossage

Star Gossage is a Maori New Zealand painter. Gossage experiments with expressionism, impressionism, and surrealism. Her colour palette is influenced by natural pigments like fish
oils, burnt kauri gum, clay, lime and earth. She’s influenced by female figures. Referencing herself, family, and the spiritual essence of womanhood. Within Gossage works, she creates dream-like images.

‘All the Flowers and the Clouds in her Hair’, 2021.
Oil on cotton coated board
760mm x 505mm

Julian Meagher

Julian Meagher is an artist from Sydney. What interests me is his process of creating a watercolour effect with oil paint. Meagher artworks captures feelings towards the self-portrait paintings. The intentional small drips of paint created from painting the canvas standing up also interests me.

‘Rapid Eye Movement #5’, 2021.
Oil on linen.
510mm x 410mm