- Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Kellie Wells
University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts and Music, Graduate Student
- Text And Image, Costume and Identity, Visual Art, Performance Art, Self and Identity, Narrative and Identity, and 31 morePersonal Identity, The funerary mask of king Tutankhamun, Female body, Gender Studies, Video Art, Film and Video Art, Consciousness, Spirituality, Spirituality & Mysticism, Archetypes, Feminist Theory, God and Goddess Archetypes, Masks, Masks & Faces, Carl G. Jung, Contemporary Art, The Self, Womanhood, Mysticism, Transformation, Self Concealment, History of Costume, Identity, Visual Anthropology, Visual Culture, Digital Theory and Culture, Visual Arts, Art History, Ethical Theory, Feminist Ethics, and Performance Studiesedit
- Kellie Wells is an artist and PhD researcher living and working in Melbourne Australia who deploys sculpture, video, colour, light and photography to prompt a re-imagination of female self-representation in our digital selfie age. By evaluating spirituality as the lens through which to view the self, Wells reconstructs the parameters of self-representation, reconfiguring sight and self-knowledge as parallel symbolic and creative processes. For further information email kelliewells52@gmail.com or Instagram account - kelliewells_artedit
From The Selfie to The Spiritual: Contemplating Female Self-Representation in a Digital Age investigates a central question: how might seeing the self through a spiritual lens expand the contemporary field of female self-representation in... more
From The Selfie to The Spiritual: Contemplating Female Self-Representation in a Digital Age investigates a central question: how might seeing the self through a spiritual lens expand the contemporary field of female self-representation in which the digital selfie reigns? My studio project springs from and engages with existing research into selfie culture, contemporary self-representation in art and spirituality in art. Through my artworks, I seek to discover alternatives to a visual culture obsessed with exteriority, object-hood and surface representations of the self. In suggesting such alternatives, my project advocates for greater critical awareness and potential transformation of female objectification and self-objectification in visual culture including social media. Deploying sculpture, video, light and photographic work, my project prompts a re-imagination of female self-representation. The art works propose a parallel symbolic relationship between sight and a search for self-understanding. This connection between seeking and vision is referred to via a range of spiritual and religious references to meditation, pilgrimage, worship, baptism and rebirth and ocular motifs including irises, contact lenses, crystal balls and mirrors. Through a spatial installation of objects and images reflecting interiority, symbolic narrative and inward focus, I explore the potential to express a layered and complex spiritual account of the self from within an increasingly commodified, networked and disembodied digital age.
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From The Selfie to The Spiritual: Contemplating Female Self-Representation in a Digital Age investigates a central question: how might seeing the self through a spiritual lens expand the contemporary field of female self-representation in... more
From The Selfie to The Spiritual: Contemplating Female Self-Representation in a Digital Age investigates a central question: how might seeing the self through a spiritual lens expand the contemporary field of female self-representation in which the digital selfie reigns?
My studio project springs from and engages with existing research into selfie culture, contemporary self-representation in art and spirituality in art. Through my artworks, I seek to discover alternatives to a visual culture obsessed with exteriority, object-hood and surface representations of the self. In suggesting such alternatives, my project advocates for greater critical awareness and potential transformation of female objectification and self-objectification in visual culture including social media.
Deploying sculpture, video, light and photographic work, my project prompts a re-imagination of female self-representation. The art works propose a parallel symbolic relationship between sight and a search for self-understanding. This connection between seeking and vision is referred to via a range of spiritual and religious references to meditation, pilgrimage, worship, baptism and rebirth and ocular motifs including irises, contact lenses, crystal balls and mirrors.
Through a spatial installation of objects and images reflecting interiority, symbolic narrative and inward focus, I explore the potential to express a layered and complex spiritual account of the self from within an increasingly commodified, networked and disembodied digital age.
My studio project springs from and engages with existing research into selfie culture, contemporary self-representation in art and spirituality in art. Through my artworks, I seek to discover alternatives to a visual culture obsessed with exteriority, object-hood and surface representations of the self. In suggesting such alternatives, my project advocates for greater critical awareness and potential transformation of female objectification and self-objectification in visual culture including social media.
Deploying sculpture, video, light and photographic work, my project prompts a re-imagination of female self-representation. The art works propose a parallel symbolic relationship between sight and a search for self-understanding. This connection between seeking and vision is referred to via a range of spiritual and religious references to meditation, pilgrimage, worship, baptism and rebirth and ocular motifs including irises, contact lenses, crystal balls and mirrors.
Through a spatial installation of objects and images reflecting interiority, symbolic narrative and inward focus, I explore the potential to express a layered and complex spiritual account of the self from within an increasingly commodified, networked and disembodied digital age.
