Art Edit has selected Alison Fausett as an outstanding artist to have on your radar. Charlotte Middleton writes.
“The focus of my art practice in general is the negotiation of a liminal space between the abject and the sublime,” says Alison Fausett, who approaches artmaking with intellectual rigour. A 2004 graduate of RMIT Melbourne’s Master of Fine Arts degree, Fausett now resides in far-north New Zealand. The related and overlapping disciplines of her practice include large-scale photographic works, sculpture, and paintings. Recent paintings depict common domestic objects, which, discarded and divorced from their usual context of the home, take on a disquieting – even “gothic” – quality. “These objects are set adrift from ownership and geography, yet we know all about them, their marks, indentations, patterns and stains,” she explains. Engaging with French anthropologist Marc Augé’s notion of “non-places” – transient contemporary spaces where humans remain anonymous – Fausett’s moody and captivating works speak to narratives of human consumption and our darker inclinations.
Above: Alison Fausett, Burn Out, 2024. Oil painting, 40 x 30cm.
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