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 Kelsie’s sculpting practice looks at the structural forms of the human figure; muscular movements, facial expressions, humanism and embodiment. As a process-based artist, she works with casting and molding techniques. Process is the catalyst for an idea to be realized through its material embodiment. Resin is her hand warmer, starting off as a liquid, but as the liquid thickness increases and finally sets. The natural flow of the material allows Kelsie to manipulate the material for different effects.

Nephropidae

Nephropidae is the scientific name for Lobster; Nephropidae is a series of resin lobsters. The lobster has a hard exterior and a soft interior. Nephropidae is an exploration of the skeletal state of the lobster, as well as the soft interior which shows muscular structure hidden beneath the hard exterior shell. When removing the soft interior you are left with a hard skeletal exterior, the exterior is strong, rough and textured whereas the interior soft, linear and augmented. I am a process based artist, who relates to the material I use through the step by step process of production. Like the lobster the steps are like limbs towards a whole. 

Anisoptera

 Anisoptera is a metaphor for a short lifespan. A dragonfly once transformed from the nymph stage into an adult dragonfly has a lifespan between 48 hours to a year. There is only a small amount of time spent on earth, no matter how we think about it; we are all animals alike, not on this earth forever. Anisoptera consists of a series of dragonfly casts which are repeated but individual. These pigmented resin casts reveal mortality through the various states of the dragonflies’ deteriorating wings, as they represent the fragility of life. 

Miss HIV Universe

Miss HIV Universe was a group project that I was invited to be part of. In this project I was one of three artists tasked to creatively demonstrate to the public how HIV affects women highlighting that at present there are 1.7 million women who live with HIV around the world. Miss HIV Universe was a part of the Global Village which was a selection on World Aids Conferences held in Melbourne, 2014. Our idea was to use the DNA strands of the virus to represent the effect of the virus on the body. We did this by using a pregnant mannequin to demonstrate that in Australia no child is born with HIV although many other countries around the world have children still being born with HIV. We also left the face of the mannequin as it was to demonstrate that you wouldn’t know that they were affected by HIV if you walked past them on the street. 

Eco-system

 Eco-system is based around the idea of the impact that we humans have on the environment, in particular the inner suburbs surrounding the city. The installation is designed to demonstrate the loss of habitat and thereby the loss of animals in these areas. It was intended that the installation would be placed in a natural environment instead of a white space. Once experimenting with this idea of a natural space instead of a white space I realized that the full impact of the Eco-system was lost in the nature, so I white space is best. 

Kindle

 Eco-system is based around the idea of the impact that we humans have on the environment, in particular the inner suburbs surrounding the city. The installation is designed to demonstrate the loss of habitat and thereby the loss of animals in these areas. It was intended that the installation would be placed in a natural environment instead of a white space. Once experimenting with this idea of a natural space instead of a white space I realized that the full impact of the Eco-system was lost in the nature, so I white space is best. 

My unwritten thoughts

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemingway

My unwritten thoughts, is based on the mechanics of the written word as an expressive way to look at the brain and the many theories on how thought patterns might work.
In studying the evolution of typewriters and the way they support the physical emergence of unwritten thoughts, i have used the pieces of a typewriter as a representation of a human brain, the functions and they way that your mind works.
This is translated into a series of sculptural heads, where i am looking at how genealogies of communication are developed and how that might be evident in other forms. The sculptures are exploring how the figure shows pattern visually, with a focus on the mechanics of the figure, the physical form. The human figure is a constant theme throughout my works as i explore my fascination of human figure and facial expressions. I am trying to see whether the visual links and differences become evident, as a kind of physical evolution. I am tying to create the mechanics to write my unwritten thought and for me this is through the sculptural body.