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Picturing Familiar Ground
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Meeker, RH, Picturing Familiar Ground, ACUADS Conference 2012 Proceedings - Region and Isolation: The changing function of art & design education within diasporic cultures and borderless communities, 3-5 October 2012, Central Institute of Technology, Curtin University, pp. 1-16. ISBN 978-0-9758360-8-8 (2012) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
My developing thesis is titled Familiar Ground: Expressing Post-Diasporic Scottish Identity through Collage and Print. The primary aim of the research is the expression of my familial history and of my own Post-Diasporic cultural celebrations, and questionings, of a hand-me-down homeland and imagined place-based identity. The topic is one of nostalgia, reflecting on my grandparent’s arrival in Australia a century ago and the adherence to Scottish culture pursued in the following generations. The visual component of my thesis is pursued through the mediums of collage and print, often using the appropriation devices of remediation and détournement.
The paper will background a pictorial language as is understood by the Scottish Diaspora and view it as a closed set, having changed little since the 19th century. I will reconsider these images and symbols in Post-Modern and Post-Colonial times, outlining the role played by Romanticism and myth in the picturing of a Scottish homeland (‘imagineering’) by the descendants of immigrant Scots.
My adopted home of Tasmania is one of misty mountains and secluded valleys. It has been fashioned on British landscape ideals. It is overwritten by Scottish placenames, flora and manmade works reminiscent of those in Scotland. I, myself, have nostalgically planted Scottish cultivars and raised Scottish breed animals on my secluded remnant farm in Tasmania’s south. Therefore the opportunity for the Tasmanian landscape to be misread is cobbled into my work alongside Scottish artefact, painting and print, the photographic and hand drawn gesture.Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
| Research Group: | Art history, theory and criticism |
| Research Field: | Visual cultures |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies |
| UTAS Author: | Meeker, RH (Mrs Roslyn Meeker) |
| ID Code: | 85155 |
| Year Published: | 2012 |
| Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
| Deposited On: | 2013-06-17 |
| Last Modified: | 2014-08-14 |
| Downloads: | 335 View Download Statistics |
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