Kelsey Schultz

Heralding from rural Australia, now based in Melbourne, Kelsey explores the ideas of originality and origin of thought, inspired by the increased accessibility of iconography in a city's saturated environment. She has developed a process by which she spontaneously paints an image and then retrospectively seeks its inspiration. This dual practice has resulted in the Scroll series and the Collage series, one capturing spontaneous creation and the other cataloguing unforeseen influences. Combined they provide physical representation of how the subconscious mind observes, processes and then creates from the unending stream of imagery we are exposed to everyday.

Untitled #1 - Scroll series

Graphite pencil and synthetic polymer paint on a watercolour paper scroll that is 37 cm by 1000 cm, this work itself accounts for 130 cm of that 1000 m. The first piece on this scroll, inspired by frames of animated film and the Dynamism art movement in European Modernism, captures the movement of a cat. They gaze around, staring at the viewer and then retreating into the canvas. Through these seven consecutive images the viewer is introduced into the work's depths while maintaining large areas of blank uncertainty.

Untitled #5 - Scroll series

Synthetic polymer paint on a watercolour paper scroll that is 37 cm by 1000 cm, this piece accounts for approximately 160 cm of the 1000 cm. This most recent piece on the scroll combines sequential images to capture movement, in the four images capturing the flight of a singular raven, and the deliberately unblended clouds. This background technique, inspired by French Impressionism, serves to emphasise the turbulence of the ravens flight to the viewer.

Untitled #2 - Scroll series

Synthetic polymer paint, watercolour paint and paper collage on a watercolour paper scroll that is 37 cm by 1000 cm, this piece accounts for approximately 155 cm of that 1000 cm. Drawing inspiration from the loose brushwork of French Impressionism and the deliberate colour use of Chinese ink painting, this piece captures a striking but elusive landscape. Additional texture and mystery is provided by the enclosing grey paper collage. Being the second work of this series it's seeks to establish both depth and an initial transition from the steady sequential progression of the previous piece.

Untitled, Installation view 2

Untitled, Installation view 1

Untitled #5 - Scroll series, Installation view 1

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