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Joshua Copland-Nielsen

 Deconstructed Skin of Chair
Chair Leg 

 

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 Upholstery of chair, dimensions variable, 2023; Wooden chair leg, mortar mould of part of chair, dimensions variable, 2024 


In comprehending the purpose of the body, the chair stands in as a indexical representation of the human being. Chairs exist only to cradle and support us. The chair on its own, acts as a form of portraiture of the human body. In essence, the skin of the chair considers the pulling apart of the body, its decomposition and how we ponder bodies after death. The body, the chair, and their remains act as a representation of the lived being. The collection of skin particles, stories the inanimate could tell that we cannot hear, all fascinate me in the destructive process of pulling apart the artisan designed mid-century chair and manipulating it into other objects and shapes.

Artist profile

Joshua Copland-Nielsen is a Northern Beaches based artist practicing on Guringai Country. Having undertaken a Bachelor of Art Theory elsewhere, following onto a Master of Fine Art in Printmaking at the National Art School, his work is heavily influenced by suburban landscapes, the temporality of the domestic space and representing the grieving process through practice.

Starting in traditional printmaking, his works of romanticised and everyday suburban homes stemmed him to query and investigate differing mediums. Pushing to multimedia works through radio frequencies projected to cathode-ray tube televisions and utilising materials of the home such as building substances and objects of comfort.

His works emit an eerie yet familiar setting of the domestic space in an urge to discuss livelihood and bodily experiences represented by indexic traces via materials such as deconstructed chairs, foam and print. His practice invites audience members to ponder the absorption of lived experience through inanimate objects as they animate through mediation of the material.
$800 and $500
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