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“Holding On” 2024
Oil on canvas (Gesso/acrylic paint toned)1450mm x 1400mm “Holding On” is a representation of clinging to facets of childhood, cultural identity, and personal resilience. The painting stands as a metaphor for navigating self-identity, blending elements of innocence with deeper, more introspective undertones. An image of myself as a child, dressed in a sheep costume, holding…
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Fragments of Home
“Fragments of Home” by Crystal Biano, at Waiheke Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. My paintings, Fragments of Home, explore the Asian diaspora experience through the lens of being a second-generation immigrant in New Zealand, examining its impact on my personal identity and nostalgic recollections. My work aims to create a dialogue between the past and…
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Studio 3
27 March 2024 “A memory of flying plastic bag kites with my sisters” Oil paint I made this wooden canvas at a wood workshop. I looked through archives of childhood photos. Combining memory and photos I created a memory of my sisters and I flying plastic bag kites. 10 April 2024 “White-washed food?”Oil paint &…
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Final Presentation
30 October 2023 I will be present 6 works in my final presentation. My set up is by the window in the year 1 studio. Separating my “Kiwi fruit” painting and “I’m not Filipino enough” painting. I isolated the “Kiwi fruit painting” as it is quite different due to painting using gouache. It is my…
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First visit at Lola’s house
26 October 2023 A faint memory using photo references of my family photo with Lola(Grandma) in the Philippines in 2012. This photo was taken at the same place seen in my painting “Revisiting Lola’s House”, but on different couch. Using the motif of Kiwi fruit of ears and mouth. My sisters and I wearing our…
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You’re not Filipino enough
12 October 2023 This painting is titled “You’re not Filipino enough”. The painting process was difficult to paint as it took a lot of courage to reflect back on memories looking at myself in the mirror. I used oil paints, W medium, and water. Here’s a sketch I made before my painting: “I felt happy…
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preparing for the cross curriculum critiques
1. kiwi fruit 22 May 2023 I decided to stretch it into a canvas frame. I made it as if I was a kiwi fruit because I’m a Kiwi/New Zealander. I made sliced kiwi fruits as my mouth and ear. This symbolises me only speaking and hearing one language. Yet I have the Philippine’s hawk-eagle…
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Two Artist Models
Star Gossage Star Gossage is a Maori New Zealand painter. Her practice includes theatre, filmmaking, poetry, and sculpture. Gossage experiments with expressionism, impressionism and surrealism. She incorporates Māori concepts such as whānau and whakapapa. Gossage works consist of mixed media. Such as watercolour, charcoal, ink, acrylic, chalk, and pastels. Her colour palette is influenced by…
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Reading 1
Statement of Intent by Mark Godfrey Mark Godfrey talks about the perspective of four female artists: bad education, application of paint, composition and the view of bodies. Jacqueline Humphries, Laura Owens, Amy Silman, and Charline von Heyl have been in an environment in which abstract paintings were discouraged. In the 1970s, a female art student…
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Painting studies
1 AUGUST 2023 Gouache studies I used Gouache and made some with layering or connecting. Ideas from my sketches of what I saw, imagine or thought when I was in the Philippines.
Crystal Monique Biaño 