Title: Bees knees Description: Idiom Definition: Something that is excellent.
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Category Archives: Works
Birds and the bees
Dark horse
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Title: Dark horse Description: Idiom Definition: A competitor that is relatively unknown or that wins unexpectedly. |
Chomping at the bit
Bullheaded
Straight from the horse’s mouth
Title: Straight from the horse’s mouth Description:Idiom Definition: Information from someone who is involved and knows a lot about it.
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Put the cart before the horse
Till the cows to come home
Mind your own beeswax
Winner on the day
Acrylic and mixed media painting on poplar floating panel, 500mm H x 1200mm W, 2015.
Agriculture day has long been a special day in the Clevedon School year. Students learn about looking after others by raising and then showing their animals. It is a fun competition and you can never tell how each animal will perform on the day. As Clevedon continues to evolve I hope we remember to cherish our points of difference.
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Get me some eggs
Acrylic and mix media painting on poplar floating panel, 500mm H x 1200mm W, 2015.
This painting is influenced by many years in hospitality. It contains an urgent moment in a narrative. The rooster screams for more eggs and the chicken is deciding how to react. The chickens are the actors on stage, yet we are left to wonder what happens next.
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Belted Galloway
Acrylic and mixed media painting on poplar floating panel, 1200mm H x 1200mm W, 2015.
Growing up I always enjoyed passing the local Umupuia Marae and looking up on the hills to spot the Belted Galloway. Recently moving back to Clevedon and thinking about its ever changing future I was struck by the symbolism of the black and white strips on each animal. Recently when I visited the marae to ask permission to draw these beautiful animals, it was confirmed that they were always intended to stand proudly on the hill as a symbol of biculturalism.
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Tallulah
Acrylic and mixed media painting on poplar floating panel, 1200mm H x 1200mm W, 2015.
Many children wish for a pony. Often you start off with an obsession for riding toy ones first. You may then start running round the yard with a skipping rope wrapped around your sisters waist to practice trotting. Sometimes you are lucky enough to get your first pony and the love for these beautiful animals takes over.
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What an Arse
Acrylic and mix media painting on poplar floating panel, 1200mm H x 1200mm W, 2015.
People have long documented their experience and appreciation of animals. This work was inspired by being amongst these two donkeys and their constant movement. By montaging animals and surrounding steep hill landscape I hoped to trace existence much like the early cave painters.
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Greater Than – Series
Title: Greater Than – series Medium: Acrylic and mixed media painting on plywood board Status : Sold Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Beauty and the beast
Title: Beauty and the beast Description: Beauty and the beast’ is a painted diptych that was created in response to moving to the country, where physical tasks made me question my position on the roles we take. I have been influenced by New Zealand Feminist painters Sylvia Siddell and Jacqueline Fahey, as they too have been inspired by their surrounding environments. The subject matter of a vacuum cleaner and a chainsaw, symbolise gender norms and question their relevance in today’s world. These everyday objects take on lives and can be seen as people duelling and or one person’s internal gender battle. I have used typical male and female colours to play and mixed the balance. The title alludes to the fairy tale story, but in this open ended narrative the beast is the vacuum cleaner, which plays the part of irrational powerful woman whilst the chainsaw is the calm male antagonist. There is no resolution just a constant push and pull between the two, as they fight for roles, power and balance. Katie Blundell 2015 |
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Untitled drawing 5
Title: Untitled drawing 5 Description: “Untitled drawing 5 is a spontaneous work exploring chaos and relativity.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Untitled drawing 4
Untitled drawing 3
Untitled drawing 2
Title: Untitled drawing 2 Description: “Inspired by the Aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through Art, this mind map tells a personal story. Without the code the viewer is left to piece together their own narrative.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Untitled drawing 1
Title: Untitled drawing 1 Description: “Untitled drawing 1 is an expressionist drawing made while thinking about the shifting ever evolving self. As Foucault “said Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Two goldfish and more
Looking right crossing the road
Title: Looking right crossing the road Description: “The Why did the chicken cross the road series was the first paintings I made after our big move from the city to the country. I was thinking about the decision we had made and the unknown future. I was reminded of the old joke, along with the countless possible answers.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Looking left crossing the road
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Title: Looking left crossing the road Description: “The Why did the chicken cross the road series was the first paintings I made after our big move from the city to the country. I was thinking about the decision we had made and the unknown future. I was reminded of the old joke, along with the countless possible answers.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Promise me you will never own a motorbike
Careful climbing honey
Cool Pop No 2 Mobile
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Title: Cool Pop No 2 Mobile Description: “Inspired by being pregnant, Alexander Calder’s mobiles, the organic forms of Dinosaur Designs and the Abstract expressionist painter Max Gimblett I started to create mobiles. As I started I was reminded of an educational legend “I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we are educated out of it” Ken Robinson. I decided my mobiles would be Kinetic Fine Art, open ended and for all ages. Cool Pop No 2 Mobile uses bright colour and simple geometric form, the process of making is organic with the sculpture growing like it has a mind of its own.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Untitled mind map 4
Title: Untitled mind map 4 Description: “Untitled mind map no 1-4 captures personal stories using visual code inspired by the aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through painting.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Untitled mind map 3
Title: Untitled mind map 3 Description: “Untitled mind map no 1-4 captures personal stories using visual code inspired by the aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through painting.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Untitled mind map 2
Title: Untitled mind map 2 Description: “Untitled mind map no 1-4 captures personal stories using visual code inspired by the aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through painting.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Untitled mind map 1
Title: Untitled mind map 1 Description: “Untitled mind map no 1-4 captures personal stories using visual code inspired by the aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through painting.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Orchard mind map 3
Title: Orchard mind map 3 Description: “Orchard mind map captures a personal story using visual code inspired by the aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through painting.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Orchard mind map 2
Title: Orchard mind map 2 Description: “Orchard mind map captures a personal story using visual code inspired by the aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through painting.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Orchard mind map 1
Title: Orchard mind map 1 Description: “Orchard mind map captures a personal story using visual code inspired by the aboriginal tradition of sharing knowledge through painting.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Little Rock
Title: Little Rock Description: “Little rock expresses the feeling of burden and pressure when faced with a huge task” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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It takes two
Dark
Title: Dark Description: “Dark is part of the mind map series which uses the aboriginal tradition of capturing events and knowledge in images, inspired by the country at night I used black paper to add mood to the print.” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Balancing act
4 Plates
Title: 4 Plates Description: “4 Plates is about personal loss, the plates represent a member of the family no longer at the dinner table” Katie Blundell 1997 |
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Bus house
Title: Bus house Description: “The end of the world series was inspired by a trip to Ahipara, where I fell in love with the beauty and simplicity of these buildings in the environment and begged the question what do we need to be happy.” Katie Blundell 2010 |
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Brown house
Title: Brown House Description: “The end of the world series was inspired by a trip to Ahipara, where I fell in love with the beauty and simplicity of these buildings in the environment and begged the question what do we need to be happy.” Katie Blundell 2010 |
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Blue house
Title: Blue house Description: “The end of the world series was inspired by a trip to Ahipara, where I fell in love with the beauty and simplicity of these buildings in the environment and begged the question what do we need to be happy.” Katie Blundell 2010 |
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Toaster and caravan
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Title: Toaster and caravan Description: “The end of the world series was inspired by a trip to Ahipara, where I fell in love with the beauty and simplicity of these buildings in the environment and begged the question what do we need to be happy.” Katie Blundell 2010 |
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End of the World
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Title: End of the World Description: “The end of the world series was inspired by a trip to Ahipara, where I fell in love with the beauty and simplicity of these buildings in the environment and begged the question what do we need to be happy.” Katie Blundell 2010 |
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Good Bones
Worth Saving
Plus Everything
Title: Plus Everything Description: “The pocket knife is a symbol of order, planning and protection. The juxtaposition of the sink and the lifejacket begs the question, what do you need these objects for? The modern women must indeed be prepared for any situation but it is in the plus shapes gaps, the empty space, the unplanned lived experience that we can explore what we value. most.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Doubt
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Title: Doubt Description: “Shaped like a plus sign because as a Parent and Artist I am trying to make a positive mark, although I am constantly aware of the unknown. A sea of doubt washes over a sleeping giant. We are all faced with doubt and must choose as individuals what road we take.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Life Boat
Upside Down
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Title: Upside Down Date: 2015 Status: For sale Medium: Acrylic and mixed media painting on plywood board Size: 1500mm x 1200mm Price: $2200 Description: “Everyone has choices, and everyone sees things from different angles. This painting can hang both ways, revealing possible options from obstacles to vast new lands.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015 |
Greater than – series
Artist Statement
When I recently returned to my home town of Clevedon with my family, I was surprised to see other people I grew up with were doing the same. I think being able to draw people back, is a great reflection on this community and beautiful little town. At the same time I noted that the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden also kept coming back. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their babies to fly just as I aim to.
This series was bought by The Corner Cafe
To enquire about my work please contact me.
We Are
Title: We Are Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Leonardo
Title: Leonardo Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Breaking Out
Title: Breaking out Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Brother
Title: Brother Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Old Duck
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Title: Old Duck Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Landing Home
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Title: Landing Home Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Mission Accomplished
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Title: Mission Accomplished Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Now Duck
Title: Now Duck Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Migration
Title: Migration Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Follow the Flags
Title: Follow the Flags Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Eye of the Storm
Title: Eye of the Storm Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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I Will
Title: I Will Description: “Since returning home to where I grew up, I have noticed the Mallard ducks in the pond at the bottom of the garden have done the same. They raise their families from their own lived experience and try to teach and guide their young to fly, just as I aim to.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Director of Change
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Title: Director of Change Description: “Inspired by the poster at the local fish and chip shop this painting looks at systems of hierarchy, power Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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The One
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Title: The One Description: “Influenced by a David Sedaris’s story about a 4 burner stove that illustrates the facets of your life, he says that in order to be successful you have to put two out. This painting is a symbol for the one thing that is most important to me, out of work, health, friends and family.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Bigger Mountains
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Title: Bigger Mountains Description: “In this series I worked freely allowing the painting and process to create and discover meaning. Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Round in circles
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Title: Round in circles Description: “In this series I worked freely allowing the painting and process to create and discover meaning. Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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What Knot
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Title: What Knot Description: “In this series I worked freely allowing the painting and process to create and discover meaning. Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Rock Point
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Title: Rocky Point Description: “In this series I worked freely allowing the painting and process to create and discover meaning. Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Ripple
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Title: Ripple Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Process
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Title: Process Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Clear Sailing
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Title: Clear Sailing Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Jumping In
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Title: Jumping In Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Treasure Island
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Title: Treasure Island Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Flow on Effect
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Title: Flow on Effect Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Less is More
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Title: Less is More Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Beacon
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Title: Beacon Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Overlap
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Title: Overlap Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Smart Goal
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Title: Smart Goal Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Navigate
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Title: Navigate Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Beyond the Square
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Title: Beyond the Square Description: “The series is a lyrical abstract response to navigational flags in relation to essentalism.” Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Creation
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Title: Creation Description: “This mobile is a collection of symbols with open meaning. It is an exercise of movement and balance Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Creation – side
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Title: Creation – side Description: “This mobile is a collection of symbols with open meaning. It is an exercise of movement and balance Katie Blundell Artist 2015
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Beauty and the beast
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Title: Beauty and the beast Description: Beauty and the beast’ is a painted diptych that was created in response to moving to the country, where physical tasks made me question my position on the roles we take. I have been influenced by New Zealand Feminist painters Sylvia Siddell and Jacqueline Fahey, as they too have been inspired by their surrounding environments. The subject matter of a vacuum cleaner and a chainsaw, symbolise gender norms and question their relevance in today’s world. These everyday objects take on lives and can be seen as people duelling and or one person’s internal gender battle. I have used typical male and female colours to play and mixed the balance. The title alludes to the fairy tale story, but in this open ended narrative the beast is the vacuum cleaner, which plays the part of irrational powerful woman whilst the chainsaw is the calm male antagonist. There is no resolution just a constant push and pull between the two, as they fight for roles, power and balance Katie Blundell 2015 |
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Selfish
Title: Selfish Description: “The Star Series documents my thinking around what it takes to become a star including ambition, hard work, talent, determination, belief and risk taking. Stars often, in my opinion, have to sacrifice a great deal of themselves, whilst pulling together many fragments in order to be successful.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Self Badge
Title: Self Badge Description: “The Star Series documents my thinking around what it takes to become a star including ambition, hard work, talent, determination, belief and risk taking. Stars often, in my opinion, have to sacrifice a great deal of themselves, whilst pulling together many fragments in order to be successful.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Becoming a star
Title: Becoming a star Description: “The Star Series documents my thinking around what it takes to become a star including ambition, hard work, talent, determination, belief and risk taking. Stars often, in my opinion, have to sacrifice a great deal of themselves, whilst pulling together many fragments in order to be successful.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Less is more
Title: Less is more Description: “The Star Series documents my thinking around what it takes to become a star including ambition, hard work, talent, determination, belief and risk taking. Stars often, in my opinion, have to sacrifice a great deal of themselves, whilst pulling together many fragments in order to be successful.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Chance
Title: Chance Description: “The Hunting series deals with the concept that you have to be in to win, with the ever present chance of failure. They are about being excited, daunted and open to learning.” Katie Blundell 2012 |
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Risk Taking Environment
Title: Risk Taking Environment Description: “The Hunting series deals with the concept that you have to be in to win, with the ever present chance of failure. They are about being excited, daunted and open to learning.” Katie Blundell 2012 |
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Tugger
Title: Tugger Description: “24/7 Tugger was designed to be a diptych with the boats looking like they will crash into each other. They also work by themselves as individuals. They are a comment on the habitual nature of our lives and challenge us, to not take things too seriously.” Katie Blundell 2013 |
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24-7
Title: 24-7 Description: “24/7 Tugger was designed to be a diptych with the boats looking like they will crash into each other. They also work by themselves as individuals. They are a comment on the habitual nature of our lives and challenge us, to not take things too seriously.” Katie Blundell 2013 |
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Royal no 1 mobile
Title: Royal no 1 mobile Description: “Inspired by being pregnant, Alexander Calder’s mobiles, the organic forms of Dinosaur Designs and the abstract expressionist painter Max Gimblett, I started to create mobiles. As I started I was reminded of an educational legend “I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we are educated out of it” Ken Robinson. I decided my mobiles would be kinetic fine art, open ended and for all ages. Royal no 1 is the first mobile I made. It was in anticipation of my own child, that I would treat like precious royalty.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Planets align No 6 mobile
Title: Planets align No 6 mobile Description: “Inspired by being pregnant, Alexander Calder’s mobiles, the organic forms of Dinosaur Designs and the abstract expressionist painter Max Gimblett, I started to create mobiles. As I started I was reminded of an educational legend “I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we are educated out of it” Ken Robinson. I decided my mobiles would be kinetic fine art, open ended and for all ages. Planets align evolved as the shapes started to orbit around each other like planets in reaction to the red dot.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Back to the future No 7 mobile
Title: Back to the future No 7 mobile Description: “Inspired by being pregnant, Alexander Calder’s mobiles, the organic forms of Dinosaur Designs and the abstract expressionist painter Max Gimblett, I started to create mobiles. As I started I was reminded of an educational legend “I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we are educated out of it” Ken Robinson. I decided my mobiles would be kinetic fine art, open ended and for all ages. Back to the future No 7 mobile looks backwards in order to move forward.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Natural No 3
Title: Natural No 3 mobile Description: “Inspired by being pregnant, Alexander Calder’s mobiles, the organic forms of Dinosaur Designs and the abstract expressionist painter Max Gimblett, I started to create mobiles. As I started I was reminded of an educational legend “I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we are educated out of it” Ken Robinson. I decided my mobiles would be kinetic fine art, open ended and for all ages. Natural No 3 mobile was inspired by watching my Dad an experienced Orchardist prune a tree by looking for its natural balance.” Katie Blundell 2014 |
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Pros and Cons
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Title: Pros and cons Description: “The Rabbit Hole Series looks at the unknown through a childlike / innocent rabbit. They weigh up ideas around what we want, what we get and how that happens.” Katie Blundell 2015 |
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Out of the Hat
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Title: Out of the Hat Description: “The Rabbit Hole Series looks at the unknown through a childlike / innocent rabbit. They weigh up ideas around what we want, what we get and how that happens.” Katie Blundell 2015
Uphill
Otto
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