Quotidian: experiences of the everyday
An exhibition of works by Larissa MacFarlane
10 October - 3 December 2014
Artist
Statement
"After many years
of recovery from a brain injury when I was 29, I found a home in Melbourne’s
West, and so began my journey of becoming an artist. This exhibition is a
selection of artworks created over the past seven years, and explores those
everyday moments that unite us in our human search for meaning and
self-discovery.
Some
of the works examine my daily rituals that I undertake in self-managing my
chronic illness. Others explore the ways that I have documented and interacted
with my everyday environment. And some investigate how we navigate life’s
encounters, discover new meanings for life, find places to belong to, as well
as propose ways that can celebrate what we have in the here and now."
Biography
Larissa
MacFarlane is a Melbourne based printmaker. She completed a Diploma of Visual
Arts (CAE) in 2010 and is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts (Printmaking)
at RMIT. Much of her work is inspired by the urban
industrial landscapes of Melbourne’s West and explore the ways in which we
coexist with technologies and structures that at the same time we can be so
disconnected from. Larissa also draws
inspiration from her experience of illness and disability to investigate ways
of linking personal stories to global understandings of where we currently find
ourselves in time and space.
She
was recently awarded the 2014 RMIT Artland prize, the 2013 Art In Public Places Award in Hobsons’ Bay
and has
been a Silk Cut finalist for the past
three years. Though her work as a
disability activist, she has also led several community engaged art projects
using principles of peer support and self-advocacy to be inclusive of people of
all abilities.
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