Artist Statement

The works on paper that I am making follow a common thread of repetitious pattern that forms inside a given area or shape on the paper to create a whole, a face. The concept behind the patterns is a study of human behaviors on a scale of the macro; starting from an origin point, five different towns or families grow and continue to grow with common variables such as space, time and competition for that line of family or town to gain as much of the given area that they possibly can. Once a line has been made by a family or town that travels far enough away from the origin point a city can be realised giving special and numerical advantage to that line of family or town over others. Each different shape in the drawings, which fit together to create a whole face is symbolic of each different culture that exists on the planet, coexisting and shaping the face of the places we inhabit.

The paintings I am making are a collage of different faces from different racial backgrounds, using diluted oil paint I paint with the canvas on the floor allowing the paint to form its own biological patterns as its swirls together forming a skin as it dries. Therefore suggesting the mixing and blurring of cultural boundaries and borders to form a face, a face of collective cultural identity.

Joseph Flynn:CURRICULUM VITAE

Study-
2006 - 2009 ongoing         
University of Joe (conceptual art work, anti-institutionalised ways of learning)
2008 - 2009 ongoing         
Mentor Training under Adrian Doyle, Tim Sterling, Regan Tamanui and Joel Gailer
2007                                    
Mentor Training under Lewis Miller

Solo Show
2009        Brood Box Gallery, Melbourne

Group Shows-

2009         
2008         Open Studios Exhibition, Blender Studios
2007         Studio Exhibition, Animal Tails, Studio 109 St Kilda
2006         The Angelico Exhibition, Forrest Centre, Perth