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Fatemeh Vafaeinezhad |
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| Birth Year: | 1965 | | Born In: | Iran | | Living In: | Australia | | Field of Study: | MFA. BFA. Current PHD in Art Education | | Statement: | The desire for emptiness and space in my art making taught me the appreciation of the resource itself. I cut the canvas and pull out the hidden wood behind the canvas. Now the canvas reveals its existent secrets
In my Art Education PHD research, ‘The Pedagogy of Unpredictable’ has influenced my practical artistic research. In these new works – blank canvases, I fully concentrate on the resource – the blank canvas as what it can offer. The wooden frame behind the canvas appears to the front and expresses the hidden stories – possibilities of its own. This new approach was inspired by my theory in art education that ‘the blank canvas is not blank,’ stating that students are ‘not blank’ and in fact are the main and primary resource that influence the whole process of teaching/learning and art making.
The blank canvas, in its position or situation, already looks something and this something also seems complete in itself. It already has something to offer and this is simply its existence. If something exists it requires consideration. This consideration, in educational language, is perhaps building knowledge on the knowledge that already exists. When I look at this blank canvas, rather than thinking about my impact on it, I wonder what theses existent elements, the blank canvas or any other resources are going to do to me? What unpredicted journeys are they going to take me on?
To me “process” is the greatest resource for both art making and art teaching, … No room for conclusiveness, no way to plan a lesson for teaching something that is spontaneous,
Classical Persian Sufi Poet, Rumi says:
If you could get rid
Of yourself just once,
The secret of secrets
Would open to you.
The face of the unknown,
Hidden beyond the universe
Would appear on the
Mirror of your perception
| | Biography: | Solo Exhibitions:
2008, Legge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007, Retrospective 1997-2007, Counihan Gallery in Brubswick
2006, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic, Australia
2005, Iranian Artists’ Forum (Khaneh Honarmandan), Tehran, Iran
2005, Cultural and Film Centre, Babol, Iran
2004, Philip-Neville Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
2003, Installation, ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2002, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2001, Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Victoria, Australia
1999, Aliance Francaise d’Islamabad, (French Cultural House) Pakistan
1999, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1998-97, Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
1996, Haft-Samar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Awards:
2007, William and Kate Herschel full PHD degree scholarship, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2006, Major Cultural Grand, Moreland City Council, Melbourne
2005, Williamstown Highly Commended Award, Vic, Australia
2004, The Smorgon Contemporary Art First Prize, 2D, Vic, Australia
2002, The Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art First Prize (sculpture), Vic, Australia
2002, Bessen Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2001, Pratt Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2000, The Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Open Prize (painting), Vic, Australia
1996, The National Students Art Award, The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran
1994, International Tourist Photography Awards, Tehran, Iran
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