James Fallon High School
Wiradjuri Country
The Sea of Ungodly Creatures
Drawing
Fineliner pen on paper
The composition of my body of work, referencing contemporary tattoo art, is the antithesis of the spaced and vividly coloured characters of Hieronymus Bosch’s, The Garden of Earthly Delights. My work incorporates the symmetry of Greek architecture, Chinese mythology’s Teng (flying snake), scattered eyes of divine omniscience, and references to Renaissance artworks with biblical themes such as Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper and Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. Crumbling buildings, wilting trees and black holes representing ‘the end’ invite the audience to consider that our own garden, ‘the modern world’, is seldom appreciated adequately. Yet, ironically, like the chiselled figure overlooking the frame, humans are chained to it.
My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the following artists: Kentaro Miura, Berserk series; Vladivlecsjo; Hieronymus Bosch; Junji Ito; Trevor Bennett; contemporary tattoos.
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