Visual Arts
Prue Gramp
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
'We first learn to speak as a way to make sense of the world and create deeper channels of understanding for, and between individuals. Speech is a way of communication and closing boundaries between human beings. However, when language is translated to obtain a physical presence, writing, something changes. Speech depends on a moment to moment interaction and dissipates after the words have been spoken. In contrast, written language holds a permanency that can exist over time. It is also a less intimate interaction between writer and reader as the text can become distanced from the author. It possesses its own identity that is independent of the author.
I have looked at what is lost, forgotten and taken for granted in articulating an idea or thought into writing. I have been particularly interested by the concept of entropy, where the more "differentiated" (original, unpredictable) the movement of a system, the more information and less noise it will contain:
"The information carried by the message is the negative of its entropy" (Bois, Y. 1993)
This dynamic conception of language is illustrated through clichés that seem to have lost their impact and meaning from overuse and a loss of originality. In some of my works I have deliberately isolated the repetition of particular words in texts, by blocking out the surrounding text and thereby stripping the words of their intended context.' Prue Gramp, 2005
*Bois, Y. 1993, Edward Ruscha Romance with Liquids Paintings 1966 - 1969 , Rizzoli International Publications, New York, USA.
BIO
Prue is currently completing her Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of South Australia, specializing in Painting and minoring in Drawing. Prue has had two solo shows Imperfections at Premier Art Gallery in 2005 and Trace at The Jade Monkey in 2003. She has also participated in various group shows at Liverpool Street Gallery, The University of South Australia, Carclew, and The Norwood Town Hall where she was a recipient of the Carclew Choice Award. Prue is the Vice President of 'The Applied Visual Arts and Design Club' and is taking part in organizing the 2005 Graduate Exhibition and the International Drawing Conference 'Drawing is Everything' in September. In July Prue co-curated the exhibition If you wanted the Sky and is curating a drawing exhibition at the Lounge Gallery in September. She will also be exhibiting some of her work during the drawing conference.
Prue has exhibited as part of Carclew's Fifth Floor project.
