Mixed media: Moving between painting and writing

Title
Mixed media: Moving between painting and writing
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
O'Sullivan, Jane
Editor
Editor(s): Shane Strange and Kay Rozynski
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)
Place of publication
Canberra, Australia
UNE publication id
une:15999
Abstract
This paper describes and critically reflects upon an experiment I conducted into the creative possibilities resulting from a process of moving back and forth between two expressive media - writing and painting. In essence, it documents how, in response to my interest in visual and narrative representation, and the area of Critical Animal Studies, I selected two paintings: George Stubbs' 'A Horse Frightened by a Lion' (1770) and John Constable's 'The Hay Wain' (1821), and brought these together, first in a painting of my own, and then in a short prose narrative. This process was in part inspired by aspects of 'Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies' (1994), in which Rob Pope discusses creative written 'interventions' into an existing prose text as allowing for a greater engagement with that 'original' text. The process presented by Pope involves deciding, 'how far you are prepared to write 'with', 'against' or 'across the grain' of what seem to be that text's dominant preoccupations and major strategies' (Pope 1994: 2). In the case of my intervention into the two 'original' paintings, I discuss the quite conscious elements of subversion introduced in my painting, and in the additional prose narrative that emerged from that process.
Link
Citation
The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being papers - the refereed proceedings of the 18th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, p. 1-10
ISBN
9780980757378
Start page
1
End page
10

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