Year 12 Art
Audrey Stock
Audrey Stock
‘Eccedentesiast’ (Unit 3 - 2021)
This self-portrait provides an insight into how the artist, myself perceives and wishes to be perceived by the audience. ‘Eccedentesiast’ derived from Latin, defines an individual as one who doesn’t want to reveal their thoughts or emotions to others and just simply wants to avoid a situation with a smile. They don’t want to disclose their pain or their opinions because of the complexion in their mind for others. This self-portrait is symbolic of my own mental health during the past few months as I struggled with serve anxiety and have become mentally and physically drained. The words that overwhelm the positive space of the portrait were directly transcribed from a journal where I wrote all my emotions and thoughts down when my mental state was at its worse, this creates a personal connection with my audience and the artwork as these words can relate back to the audience’s individual interpretation.
Acrylic on canvas
91 X 60.4 cm
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Audrey Stock
‘Wandering companionless’ (Unit 4 - 2021)
This triptych depicts ‘Ghost Boy’ striving the melancholy emotions of social exile and ultimate fear of loneliness away from society. ‘Ghost Boy’ serves as a narrative highlighting childhood innocence as well as the inescapability of loneliness, in terms of the audience’s interpretation and connection to how ‘Ghost Boy’ conveys these emotions of anxiousness and deprivation. The concept of this artwork was heavily influenced by a romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem entitled ‘To the moon’ (1824). The poem is as follows:
“Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?”
-Percy Bysshe Shelly ‘To the moon’ (1824)
Shelly perfectly encapsulates how the moon is afflicted by loneliness and unrequited love, observing the pallor of the moon as it wearily climbs the night sky. The moon illuminates its solidarity as it is unable to find a companion that will be truthful in nature, Shelley consciously recasts the moon as a jaded soul and romanticizes the rhythm of time as it embodies the cycle of solitude.
Watercolour and fine liner on cold press watercolour paper
67.5 X 37.5 cm
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Audrey Stock
‘Illusion vs. Reality’ (Unit 4 - 2021)
This series of linoleum print communicates the idea the mind has become absent from reality and is pulling apart the consciousness, causing the human condition to disintegrate. This demonstrates how the world have negatively affected how an individuals perceives themselves and the world around them. Ultimately the world has become consumed by their own delusions of beauty and conformity, with our minds becoming engrossed in subjects meaningless to our existence yet distract us from the inevitability of death. Throughout this year I found myself consumed by the fear of the unknown, the lack of stability in my routine and the end of school leaves me fearful for my future. These prints reflect my own emotions as the confusion and unstable view of my future begin to consume my consciousness, leaving me to disintegrate
Block ink and linoleum plate on cold press watercolour paper
49 X 49 cm
