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Sian Torrington, still from Snippets: Paint Me a Fanatic, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.

 

Sian Torrington

9 February - 8 March 2009 in the Square² Gallery

Snippets: Paint Me a Fanatic 2008
DVD
duration: 3 minutes, 36 seconds, looped
Courtesy of the artist

‘Snippets: Paint Me a Fanatic originated from a desire to recover the sounds produced during the making of my work. This by-product became the work itself, producing meaning through the exploratory and unstable nature of making.’ Sian Torrington is interested in structures, buildings, and in examining the process of making. Her film explores sites of interaction between the material, the physical engagement of the artist, and spontaneous meetings within the work which defy or loosen the maker’s control. Here the process itself produces ‘lyrics’ or an aural component.

The artist considers the reuse, revaluing and reinterpretation of found resources to be vital in a contemporary environment, and in Snippets: Paint Me a Fanatic domestic materials including wallpaper, paper bags and cardboard are used as building supplies. Fragments of text colonise these impermanent structures, paralleling Torrington’s own poetry, which draws from found or overheard fragments of conversation. These are collected, and then recompiled to make new sense. In a similar way the literary and material elements in this work have been assembled to form a three-dimensional poem, or a collage.

Sian Torrington is currently completing her Masters in Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington. She has previously exhibited in self-generated shows, artist run spaces, and at public galleries, and has also made projects for the Fringe Festival in Wellington and Dunedin. The artist has also worked as a fashion designer, gallery manager and currently as an art mentor