Corrected Perspective

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Background: The central theme explored in my visual practice is perception, seeking new ways to challenge conditioned or habituated perception. This is usually approached through architectural intervention, themes of mirroring or inversion to draw attention to the conditions that shape the unconscious biases informing our world view. These approaches draw on the practices of artists from the art of light and space or contemporary practitioners such as Eliasson or Holler. This research addresses the issue of mirroring and inversion through the reorientation of a graphic representation that is so familiar that it is taken as axiomatic and not a human construction.
Contribution: Through the inversion of the familiar motif of the world map, this work challenges Western political perspectives. Corrected Perspective upends the conventional image of the Earth as a call to reimagine experience and to show that distinctions between North and South, centre and margin, near and far, originate in the mind of the beholder. They are human inventions that when reoriented call for new ways of seeing and being in the world. The work uses neon in an expansive and ambitious manner derived from the artist’s interest in light and drawing practice. This use of neon draws on the example of neon practice by many artists, notably international artists such as Creed and local artists Burchill and McCamley.
Significance: The work was exhibited at the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, which has an Art and Heritage Advisory Panel that provides expert advice and curation. The work was selected from over 500 entries by a panel of judges comprising curators from the Darebin Art Prize and the nationally recognised curator Charlotte Day from Monash University Museum of Art.