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Paul du Moulin is a contemporary artist based in the Blue Mountains. His work can be viewed as a series of cultural artifacts, created as a result of a particular sensitivity to the subtle shifts constantly occurring in both the natural and man made world. CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Paul du Moulin My early family experiences of museum hopping has trained me to put things in boxes, compartmentalising my life in a scientific way. Specimen boxes have become an obsession with me. I call these works assemblages as they are multi-facetted pieces. I pull together all my cross media interests into quirky statements on my experiences, daydreams and desires. Painting, sculpture, photography, etching, drawing, new media and found objects. I found that a single frame could not satisfy my western brain’s need for massed images. It is a device I use to travel from time to time and place to place. As well as simultaneously linking a variety of different media, I aim to integrate the ideas contained within distinct cultural approaches to creating art as well. My interests lead me to follow the Chinese tradition of not just copying from nature but arranging an emotive story to aid in the conjuring of feeling. Fusing this method with the western way of compartmentalising visions as well as being influenced by our Australian indigenous traditions where art tells a story and imbues power. Having moved on from purely representational landscape painting to a more symbolised vision, I don't want to just copy these art forms but to create a bridge between these traditions. It isn't just about painting a beach or a mountain but to experience the essence of these things. Experience is not only about vision but a culmination of memories, smells, prejudices, sounds, and touch. This sounds a pretty impossible task for an art work to achieve but not if the symbols can add up in such a way that invokes at least a passion to experience these things. Is there a connection between my work as a Blue Mountains/Sydney artist and the Gold Coast where these pieces will be displayed? I think so. My works are ciphers that can be created in the minds of the viewer. The desire is to make a visual connection between your own personal experiences and memories and these works. That painting of a darkling sky and vanishing fields may remind us of our time as children. And there is my ancestral connection to the inland town of Warwick. My great grandfather built a house there in the 1890s and it is still belongs to the family. Not a direct connection with the Gold Coast but one stretched on an elastic band. I think the Gold Coast was like Warwick once. Dirt roads, horse and buggies, cockies and cathedrals. The elastic band is time, and it helps me to travel between these two places as well as from a time in the past to the present. Warwick sometimes feels to me that it is trapped in a past epoch quivering with the desire to enter the future. While the Gold Coast is bold and glitzy but perhaps sometimes even it, dreams of a simpler time? My works are designed to be enjoyed much like the journey through a favourite museum. Moving gently from story to story through time and place. Education Diploma of Graphic Arts - School Visual Arts, Darlinghurst, Sydney Awards & Prizes 2006 |
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