Artist Stament, Artist propasal, Artist Bio

 Artist Bio

Grace Avealalo, an undergraduate at Manukau Institute of Technology. Born in Samoa and currently resides in south Auckland, New Zealand. Her practice is based around using film, as well as silhouettes within her film to portray her story to the world. A student who is still in search for her own identity within the art world, therefore expressing that through her new film titled, "Unknown". 

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 Artist Statement

Grace Avealalo

In the past years that I have been studying as an undergraduate, the concept of my work has constantly changed. This has led me to my current practice, working with moving image and silhouettes, creating an idea of the “Unknown.”

The “Unknown” is a film work that I created going along with the idea of silhouettes. I find silhouettes fascinating and relatable to my work because once someone see’s a silhouette they can see the shape of the object and are able to tell what it is but aren’t able to go into details, which is what I wanted to express through my film. This film work places emphasis upon the fact of being in a location but not capable of knowing who you are in that place. This can also be considered as a self portrait, showing how I myself am incapable of identifying myself and where I stand as an artist in the art world. However, I do know that the art world is where I belong.  

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Artist Proposal 

To Michel Lett Gallery

My name is Grace Avealalo I’m an undergraduate student at the Faculty of Creative Arts at Manukau Institute of Technology. I am currently on my second year of my Bachelor and as an art student I’m still trying to find my identity in the art world and this show through my work. Sometimes the uncertainty and confusion in myself as an artist’s, I use to my advantage, and present work that is multi-layered and difficult to read direct meaning into. The work becomes ambiguous, presenting more than one idea, which creates the mysterious and lost identity that perhaps a feeling many students in my age group are wrestling with.

I am a mix media artist in my practice I like to work with verity of medium that way there will be different approaches to take to create my work. In this project the equipment I use for my moving image piece are studio lights, a transparent screen, a camera to capture movement, colour gels to create different colour lights and a model. The transparent screen in placed in front of the camera the model will be behind the screen, while the lights shown to the model the shadow of the model is then cast on the transparent screen and the camera will be capturing the model silhouette movement.

The silhouette represents me, and having this to silhouette typifies me in the art world. The purpose using a silhouette is to convey the idea that I am absent but I’m unaware of my identity; I’m not sure who I am as an artist. The silhouette movement will not be dramatic or inelegant but it will be graceful and refined, this convey the idea that yes I’m not sure of my identity but I’m not afraid nor scared to be where I am. The different lighting colours will convey my creative character, that I may be uncertain and confusion in me as an artist, but it will not stop my creativity. I will also be having some screen prints, the image that is to screen print will be a series of photograph from my silhouette shoot my idea of this piece is make a solid copy of the video clip.

I would be thrilled and honoured to have the opportunity to exhibit my work at your gallery, I’ve have had a look around on my last visit and I saw a space in the gallery that I’m interested to display my work in. The room with the colour walls which I’m unsure of the name, I think would be a perfect space for me to display my work. The wall just outside of this room will also be a great space for me to display my screen prints but I’m open to discuss with you any other suggestions. I hope I get this opportunity to work with you and be able to tell my story to the public with your help.   

Thanks for taking your time reading this proposal hope to hear from you soon.  

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