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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Main Author: Harman, Fiona
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56485
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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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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
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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
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title_fullStr Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality
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title_short Real and Imagined Suburbia: using painting to explore allusions to promise and reality
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url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56485