Tags for This Work

• Light

• Obsession

• Pinpoints

Inspiration for This Work

The Obsession Light evolved from studies focusing on our everyday interactions with artificial lighting. From these studies it became clear that we have an obsession with unnecessary, wasteful artificial lighting in our urban environment. We surround ourselves with the glow of the television, hazy puddles of street lighting, the comforting radiance of our mobile phones and the millions of other pin points of light that pierce the landscape.

The Obsession Light challenges our need for so much useless artificial lighting. Perhaps if we all switched off our lights more often, we could see the stars a little better...

Student Biography

I grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and knew from an early age that I wanted to put my vivid imagination to good use. I attended an art high school where we would go to school for 6 days a week- on the sixth day we would take classes of our choice with skilled practitioners in the field. My favourite classes were always life drawing, sculpture and painting. For our final year art exams, one of our subjects was "Modern Design" and I was completely seduced by all the beautiful, crisp design books. From then on I was hooked...

Since coming to COFA I have been able to indulge my love of fine art while developing my skills as a designer. For me, the distinction between these two fields is completely fluid. I was recently told that although I may work as a designer, I think like an artist. I am drawn to the poetic, meaningful and exploratory nature of design and hope to pursue this in my future work.

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