Nadene Carr

  Nadene Carr

Artist statement

Within this body of work I have turned inward to my own personal environment. House, objects
and animals. Exaggerating the confinement over the last few years and the intense gathering of
clutter and madness.
I have used found painted canvases for my work to adorn the body. Once had a life but now
rendered unwanted clutter in our throw away society. Building a strong welded frame to support
the canvases, cutting up to find the sweet spot.

House, 2023. Pendant, welded steel and found canvas. L15cm x W8cm x D3cm

Bio

Nadene Carr completed an Auckland Bachelor of Visual Art in 2009. Her work looks at the
dynamic relationship between the beautiful and ugly. Carr pushes the aesthetic elements of
what constitutes the beautiful and the ugly by investigating the provocative and challenging
concepts that arise: culture, gender, age, taste and appropriation, while considering the
personal and intimate adornment.

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