Driven
Artists are
basically driven to create
2 Dogs
Art Space Akashi
Presents
The
Driven
exhibition
by
Western
Australian Artists
Opens 13th of January to the
23rd by appointment
Gallery Opening times1 - 4
pm Saturday and Sunday
on
these days 13th – 14th
– 21st of January, 20th 1.30
– 4pm
Lynne Norton - Caspar Fairhall - Diokno Pasalin - Michael Doherty
- Shelley Cowper - Peter Davidson - Cynthia Ellis - Connie Petrillo
Melissa
Nolan McDougal - Sally Douglas - Ron Nyizstor
Michelle Bourne - Kevin Robertson
John Cullinaine - Duncan Mckay - Ken Wadrop
I
don’t know of any other living thing on this planet that is driven to make art
wholly without reward other than humans but I might be wrong.
It is
true animals can make something called art but is it a natural progression or a
pavlovian series of taught tricks like dogs can do for a reward being food or
affection from the master?
Whereas
humans are a unique species in creating art as it appears to have been a form
of communication since early rock drawings in Australia and the cave paintings
in Europe, some of these images have meanings that modern societies may never
know about but they were obviously important at the time for communicating
ideas for the societal memory for the local inhabitants
So
now back to the present time and in his exhibition there is on show artists who
create art with a diverse range of studio praxis that have one obvious thing in
common and that is they appear driven to construct artwork in unity and
diversity.
The
Driven exhibition produces one of the most interesting outcomes in humanity
being how the self - motivated human mind, obsessed to create presents an
artwork uniquely different from the next human.
Therefore
in viewing this exhibition one hopes the audience can appreciate the
determination of the artists in studio praxis with the associated aesthetic
outcomes produced, whether they’re to your aesthetic taste does not matter,
what matters is the artist’s drive in a range
of experimentations that have managed to create a unique artwork.
Dr Peter Davidson
Acknowledgments
Interview with one of
Lucian Freud’s children where she talked about what her father said about in
art ‘it’s what drives you’ this stayed with me for a long time and
unfortunately it was a long time ago and I can’t find site on the internet
anymore.
Why Do
Humans Make Art
Nathan H.
Lents, Ph.D., is a Professor of molecular biology at John Jay
College, of the City University of New York, where he also serves as the
director of the honors program and the Macaulay Honors College. He is the
author of Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in
Animals and maintains The Human Evolution Blog.
