What I aim to accomplish in my major project is to reflect upon the idea of self-discovery. A transsexual woman and various flamboyant elements are the metaphors for selfhood in my works. I want the viewers to be able to comprehend with the notion of what we see on the outside could potentially be someone’s […]

My name is Pirada Kuanpoth. Ever since I was a child I had always felt like I was a different from everybody else . I didn’t have any friends at all until I got into university. But I have always loved making art. It’s the best form of communication between myself and the world around […]

Personally, I believe that art is purely about self-expression. Most of the time when I create any forms of art, there’s no legitimate reason behind it. With these particular series of works, they have nothing to do with my major project at all whatsoever. They reveal my perception of the world at the time I […]

Tyza Stewart is a visual artist who explores gender identity through an art practice based in continual self-portraiture. Tyza uses documentation and memories from their own childhood as well as more current experiences to inform an interrogation of understandings of normality in relation to gender. Resulting self-portraits depict ambiguously gendered selves that publicly fail to […]

On the last two days, Jess and I got to work with Louise again. This time we were feeling extremely excited because we got to delicately handle large paintings in the massive store room. Our task on the last two days involved recording the titles of the paintings, the artists’ names and the paintings’ locations […]

As part of my major works project, I have been creating a series of paintings which focus upon the subject of transsexuals and post-gender imagery. However, with this particular piece of work, I started off by painting a tiny portrait of Rayon. Then, I intentionally painted a larger size version of her right on top […]

I have learned more skills through working with other people and benefit from their experience. Doing work placement at the Wollongong City Gallery has equipped me with many useful skills. For example, I learned how to work as a team and my communication skills have been improving tremendously. Not only that I tend to have […]

What a productive day it was. Jess, Desiree and I were actively helping Milly and Sam moving plints, shelves and perspects plastic from the gallery building to Town Hall building. Though, we were feeling worn out but it was so worth it.