Rhea Elise Gibbons

 

 

"My practice centres greatly around my life experiences. I believe in the therapeutic nature of the creativity process; making art to exorcise demons of the past. The artwork I make is aimed at creating a feminist rhetoric and questioning the patriarchal tendencies of western culture. Influenced by early films, I work primarily in starkly contrasting black and white, which allows the eye to focus on details and textures instead of being distracted by colour. Working with software like Photoshop, Lightroom and iMovie, I primarily make photo-manipulations and stop motion films, although I am currently searching for innovative ways to take my films a step further into installations. I like my work to be quite enchanting; first greeting the eyes, only upon closer inspection can the socio-cultural underpinnings be understood, and from this a dialogue created."