Leah BULLEN | 利亞．布倫
(Australia)
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Australian National University, ACT
Doctor of Philosophy Creative Practice, Australian National University, ACT
Winner of the Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Stanthorpe, QLD
Winner of the Trustees’ Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Work held in numerous public and private collections in Australia
澳洲國立大學(榮譽)視覺藝術學士
澳洲國立大學創作實務博士
斯坦索普藝術獎得主 昆士蘭州斯坦索普地區美術館
理事水彩獎得主 雪梨新南威爾斯美術館
作品經澳洲多個公私立機構收藏
Memory Theatre 記憶劇場
2018 | Watercolor, Gouache and Monotype on Paper
水彩、水性顏料、單刷版畫、紙 ｜84 x 127 cm
Thematically, my work explores sites that recreate and curate the natural world. In Memory Theatre, the garden/botanical glasshouse acts as a model through which I explore how we visualise, experience and consume the spectacle of nature within contemporary culture during a time of environmental uncertainty. Gardens also act as ‘Theatre of the real,’ echoing the visual and conceptual tropes of representational painting, employing illusion and virtuality to reimagine the world.
就主題而言，我的作品探索再創造與管理自然世界的場址。記憶劇場中，花園/植物園玻璃屋化為模型，藉此想像、體驗與消費環境不確定性的時代裡，當代文化中的自然奇觀。花園也成了「現實劇場」，呼應具象繪畫的視覺與概念比喻，利用幻覺與虛擬重新想像世界。