Caity Girle
My artwork is prompted by humanity’s “entitlement” over the planet and its various resources. Specifically, my artwork seeks to convey the irony and insignificance of this position from nature’s own biological perspective - playfully. Nature’s ability to heal while consuming the attempts of humanity’s control, causes the creation of biological and self-sustaining ecosystems. These themes are most evident through my use of diverse and explosive colour, representing the multitude of diversity found in these biospheres.
The dark natures of existentialism, dystopian fantasy, mythology, folklore and evolutionary theory has intrigued me greatly, as I vivify destruction into a magical and fantastical way attempting to remind ‘us’ to find the trapped inner child within, which wants to be set free from society’s destructive internal and external ways.
This work prompted by a more serious point of view; nature’s gradual degradation of perspective of western influence with materialistic obsession. The audience is first confronted with an individual, suffocating in accumulated wastage.
The practice was an organic improvisation of collecting my waste for the week, wrapping stuffing and hand sewing on plastics, cardboard and nylon stockings However, the theme entrapment by consumerism is soon overshadowed by nature’s response – bioluminescence begins to trickle through in flickering colour and as I am trapped by materialism, the consumer is consumed.
Caity Girle 2020
Consumer is Consumed, Improvisation of collected materials for a week including- wrapping, stuffing, plastics, cardboard and nylon stockings.
Caitlin's work is relaxing, healing but also creates anxiety at the same time. Her art piece contains rubbish, foam, flowers and painted pink objects. By divided into three parts, the foam involves the texture of fluffy and comforting, flowers inspire a sense of gentle and eternal. Meanwhile, the pink painting on foams take the peaceful away and give the work a feeling of unease and fear. This artwork reflects the balance of stability and crisis in general.
Wenjun Liu 2020