Jeanette Korduba ARAS
Artist Statement
I began art as a landscape painter but came to enjoy studio work as it fosters the opportunity to experiment with different media and subject matter. After my first self-portrait was accepted into the Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize I was inspired to explore portraiture. I paint subjects who have an emotional impact on me, whether admiration for their work, or an emotional connection. My objective is to strive for creative authenticity which means I now must try to divest myself of the many influences of the artists that I have studied over the years. This is very difficult to do. At the National Museum of Australia, Canberra in 2003 I was amazed by an exhibition called “ Rare Trades” showing people engaged in the art of making things with considerable skill, and which are all but lost except to just a handful and showed the human urge to make things by is hand is deep and irresistible. It is a stark contrast to this inescapable digital age. I immediately related to this as an artist and am driven to paint subjects to whom I connect, while at work. An example of these are Professor Colin Sullivan creating his revolutionary breathing apparatus to cure sleep apnea and Dr Maija Kohonen-Corish at her gene machines and test tubes, researching cures for cancers. It has been rewarding to be selected a number of times as a finalist in Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize and First Prize for portraiture in the Mortimore Art Prize.
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