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Link to Lucy Murdoch's website BVA303, BVA316, BVA312, BVA313 November 2019

Aren't Loose Creative Designs Website - Lucy Murdoch2019 https://lucymareemurdoch.wixsite.com/website

BVA303, 316,312,313 7 November 2019

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BVA303, 316,312,313 7 November 2019 Last Call - Bachelor of Visual Art 2019  level 7 / year 3 As I have reached my final day SIT Creative centre on Don Street, Invercargill I feel happy to have completed the year with a final exhibition, essays and talks now done. I think overall that I have successfully answered my questions related to this years theme of Creative Play, Visual Narratives and Installations. Viewer reception formed a major part of the body of work as I wanted to take my work to a  broad audience.   The making and creating of the work has been one of discovery, joy and sleepless nights at times as the creative brain plays with the objects it loves - thanks Carl Jung! To keep a focus on a year long project and slices for Theory and History has been challenging at times, the shear amount of objects collected became a temporary side project that I abandoned - but I think in the end I am satisfied of what has been written and displayed. My ...

Art History BVA312 Contemporary African Art 7/11/19

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Art History BVA312 Contemporary African Art 7/11/19 Ghana - East Africa http://www.ghanamuseums.org/news.php Ghana museums Paa Joe and Elisabeth Efua have curated a wonderful installation - I love the objects scale and use of space - their is narrative and humor in the work. Currently on view at Gallery 1957: works by Ghanaian artists Paa Joe and Elisabeth Efua Sutherland, as part of the 'One does not take it anywhere' exhibition. NII ODZENMA source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/declaneytan/2018/01/17/how-an-accra-based-art-gallery-is-bringing-ghanaian-contemporary-art-to-the-global-stage/#1ec70a65e4a2 Ibrahim Mahama Born 1987   - lives and works in  Ghana Mahama is a contemporary artist of interest with his use of the found object  and installation work - collections of everyday things.  I enjoy seeing other cultures exhibiting using old boxes and cases - the installations are at a large scale and beyond anyting I would be interested in...