Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality
For this practice-led research project, I engage with the fields of contemporary landscape painting and architectural theory to reimagine the display home. Using a method of action research, I use the motifs of suburban architecture and the swimming pool to explore overlapping ideas of promise and r...
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Curtin University
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56485 |
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| author | Harman, Fiona |
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| description | For this practice-led research project, I engage with the fields of contemporary landscape painting and architectural theory to reimagine the display home. Using a method of action research, I use the motifs of suburban architecture and the swimming pool to explore overlapping ideas of promise and reality. My paintings combine abstract and figurative techniques that encourage associative freedom tied to notions of sympathy, feeling, and place. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-564852017-10-04T05:59:05Z Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality Harman, Fiona For this practice-led research project, I engage with the fields of contemporary landscape painting and architectural theory to reimagine the display home. Using a method of action research, I use the motifs of suburban architecture and the swimming pool to explore overlapping ideas of promise and reality. My paintings combine abstract and figurative techniques that encourage associative freedom tied to notions of sympathy, feeling, and place. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56485 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Harman, Fiona Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality |
| title | Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality |
| title_full | Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality |
| title_fullStr | Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality |
| title_short | Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality |
| title_sort | real and imagined suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56485 |