ivon oates
Being multi-disciplinary, my work combines the varied skills of new media, focussing on sound, and fine arts especially painting, design. My work responds to the context and environment, emerging as a project or installation and often reinterprets architectural space and materials as metaphor for re-experiencing the concrete.
My sense of the vastness and ‘other-worldliness’ of imaginative space is influenced by my upbringing in Africa, as well as my interest in transformative strategies, eg. subverting a normally primary medium and its seductive allure to support another.
The ambiguities of overlapping realities in contemporary life, and how we see ourselves, weave through my work.
I enjoy working with others to explore the creative dynamic between the personal and the wider context, even outside traditions of Western art.
