Robyn Dansie Greater London, United Kingdom
I am an Australian artist, living and working in my studio in London. My work includes painting, collage, mixed media, drawing, prints and installations. My initial art training in Australia, at both the Brisbane Institute of Art and the Latrobe College of Art in Melbourne, cemented a view of the world as I observe, analyse and mentally re-construct images of the world around me.
I have always had the desire to re-create newness from worn, tired, or familiar objects or symbols. I attribute this to a respect for my surroundings and an ever-present and long-held belief that nothing should go to waste or be discarded simply because it has exhausted its initial purpose for being.
Consequently, I pursue the goal of re-purposing materials and images to create unique, and sometimes confronting, works that reveal totally new concepts about objects, images or even a social beliefs. Where other people see commercial advertisements promoting the latest products, photos of picturesque landscapes, family portraits, useless ephemera items, even commercial documentation long past its use-by date or just simple, everyday trivial items, I see the makings of an art piece, capable of completely re-imaging the viewer’s understanding of the objects.
I enjoy working with different elements and piecing them together to create some kind of logic and order. There is a fundamental pleasure in connecting a few images together to make something that did not previously exist. There is a landfill of ideas out there and a universe of nonsense that needs sorting.
