Adrian Bennett

Dwell

Bachelor of Visual Arts Mixed Media Painting Printmaking Identity Place Queer Art

Dwell verb.

  1. To remain for a time
  2. To live as a resident
  3. To keep the attention directed

Home, beyond a physical residence or birthplace, is a feeling of comfort and safety. It’s often the mundane, everyday objects that make a house a home, but end up becoming overlooked. This series invites the audience into my domesticity, with canvases as windows scaled at one to one representation of a home scene, in relation to the viewer. The warmth of the feeling of being settled is what I want to foster in my installation, inviting my viewers to be present in the artist’s home, and reflect on their own.

The simplified representations of the glimpses into domestic life invites the viewer to impose their own experiences of home onto mine, while the saturated unreal colours and layered tones of oils have a memory-like quality. Quintessential patterns from curtains and bedspreads printed on the substrate, and recognisable home-scenes of dishes or a power socket, locate the series to the home.