Cohere I - Pete Mattila
The meaning embodied within the pieces I produce is entwined with the process, material, physical engagement and technical ability. It is only through open-ended activity that new works can emerge. The way I view my work is like a continuous thread in a larger fabric. I am a maker; what I am making is new to me. I am not viewing it from the outside, I am experiencing the work as a journey. My conceptual framework comes from these acts of doing, making, and thinking. In this way, the object is a continually emerging artefact.
Bio: Currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia. My work celebrates complex histories, in art, craft and design as well as in industrial expression. While simultaneously identifying the practice and understanding of craft in terms of social consciousness, the expression of an ethical life through the immediate relationship between hand and mind, the interrelationship between the physical world and intention. The material processes used imply an encapsulated visual dialogue of energy and motion. Articulating movement through the use of steel on steel, with a constant observation of the visual and structural vocabulary specific to working processes.
The meaning embodied within the pieces I produce is entwined with the process, material, physical engagement and technical ability. It is only through open-ended activity that new works can emerge. The way I view my work is like a continuous thread in a larger fabric. I am a maker; what I am making is new to me. I am not viewing it from the outside, I am experiencing the work as a journey. My conceptual framework comes from these acts of doing, making, and thinking. In this way, the object is a continually emerging artefact.
Bio: Currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia. My work celebrates complex histories, in art, craft and design as well as in industrial expression. While simultaneously identifying the practice and understanding of craft in terms of social consciousness, the expression of an ethical life through the immediate relationship between hand and mind, the interrelationship between the physical world and intention. The material processes used imply an encapsulated visual dialogue of energy and motion. Articulating movement through the use of steel on steel, with a constant observation of the visual and structural vocabulary specific to working processes.
The meaning embodied within the pieces I produce is entwined with the process, material, physical engagement and technical ability. It is only through open-ended activity that new works can emerge. The way I view my work is like a continuous thread in a larger fabric. I am a maker; what I am making is new to me. I am not viewing it from the outside, I am experiencing the work as a journey. My conceptual framework comes from these acts of doing, making, and thinking. In this way, the object is a continually emerging artefact.
Bio: Currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia. My work celebrates complex histories, in art, craft and design as well as in industrial expression. While simultaneously identifying the practice and understanding of craft in terms of social consciousness, the expression of an ethical life through the immediate relationship between hand and mind, the interrelationship between the physical world and intention. The material processes used imply an encapsulated visual dialogue of energy and motion. Articulating movement through the use of steel on steel, with a constant observation of the visual and structural vocabulary specific to working processes.