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How artforms can convey meaning from health research findings.

Presenter: Armelle Swan

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This session consists of an outline of the steps to extract salient meanings from research findings, which can then be conveyed by an artwork. We use the example of a recent aged care study and a brief activity to explore the kind of approach that makes this possible.

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How to go from Idea to Image? Abstract to concrete?

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Viewers can expect to take a close look at the foundational step of the initial examination, assessment and analysis of research findings. Armelle then illustrates, using an analogy, how these activities have remarkable parallels with her own approach to extracting core concepts from research findings and how this informs her artmaking. Viewers can also expect to learn about key aptitudes that researchers and artists share and divergent thinking modes that enable these processes.

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This session explores how the crucial investigatory step, combined with a range of artistic strategies, forms the basis of how best to construct an art form that imparts knowledge. Through the activity, viewers gain insight into how an artwork is able to impart emblematic meanings that are then experienced by the viewer.

 

 

About the presenter: Armelle Swan is an Australian artist based in Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours and MFA from University of Sydney. Primarily a painter, she also works with collage and assemblages. A recent project was for SPHERE, using her background in health to translate aged care research findings.

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Armelle had her first solo show in 2001 at First Draft, followed by group and curated shows including ‘ACB Selects’, ‘Dot, dot, dot’ at SCA Galleries, ’Reinvention of Gravity’ at Verge Gallery and ‘SNO’ at Tin Sheds. She has been a finalist in many NSW prizes for painting and undertaken numerous portrait commissions.

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