Clare Mannion
i: @swirl_artbody_painting
Clare Mannion is a Naarm based artist, body painter, and art tutor. She studied audiovisual art at COFA, creating short films exploring feminist discourse, with screenings in Bangkok and San Francisco. Clare later worked extensively in live visual performance, VJing alongside artists including Carl Cox and Ministry of Sound. After starting a family Clare redirected her creative practise to face and body painting, drawn to the mediums immediacy and the way people participate to become a living artwork. Clare explores the temporal nature of body painting performing to live audiences. Clare’s body painting photographic work themes are camouflage illusion, body as landscape, and futurism. Through her business, Swirl Art, Clare teaches adults the foundational skills in painting & drawing in Contemporary art styles.
Soma Netic
2015, Photography - direct acrylic.
42 x 59 cm
$440 (framed)
Soma Netic explores how the body holds and adapts to the digital age. Ultra -violet painted internal hardware map the illuminated networks through the body. The soft, warm light obscures the body’s form to suggest a landscape from a sci fi future. This work reflects on technological embodiment and how we adapt to an ever increasing digitally mediated existence. Screens, signals and constant connectivity are absorbed and a new state of being emerges through our intimate relationship with technology.