#multi-disciplinary artist

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Inma by Zaachariaha Fielding

Acrylic on linen. This Adelaide-based multi-disciplinary artist from the Mimili community on the APY lands, was the winner of the 2023 Wynne prize and one-half of electronic music duo Electric Fields, representing Australia at the 2024 Eurovision song contest. The painting presents Fielding’s community through a childhood lens, recalling observations of inma (song and dance) and movement.

Photograph: Zaachariaha Fielding

Hadley’s Art prize

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Jova Lynne is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in New York City, of Jamaican and Colombian heritage. Lynne is interested in the parallels between fictional, historical and personal archives in identity development. Lynne seeks to subvert anthropological practice in utilizing lens, sculpture and performative practices. She is interested in the cognitive dissonance one experiences when navigating material, text and media-based archive specifically as it relates to Black culture. Lynne completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art in May 2017. Since then Lynne has been based out of Detroit, MI, and has exhibited widely including institutions such as Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Detroit Institute of Art and Redbull Arts. Lynne is a grantee from various foundations which has supported her work in media and social practice based projects in Kingston, Jamaica and Berlin, Germany in addition to her work in the United States. https://loghaven.org/artists/jova-lynne/

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To Include or not Include?

Dear Followers,

As many of you know I am a practicing painter. I consider my work in the studio to be central in my life. (My work can be viewed here: http://www.corynneostermann.com)

And as many of you also know, I consider myself a multi-disciplinary artist. I make music with my various band(s), and write lyrics that pertain to my painting work. There is a post-studio performance component to making music, as well, and it is exhibitionistic in a different way than making a highly personal painting. I also consider myself a bit of a theorist and poet. My "sketchbooks" are filled with poetry and notes on ideas as opposed to images and thumbnails of paintings to come. While these interests color the work I make, they are not as central to the paintings I make, however, that does not make them unimportant to my paintings.

My question is: is it wise to include these artist writings and links to music sites with my stuff on them on my artist's website? On the one hand, they help create a three-dimensional example of the multi-disciplinary work that I do, which helps with giving voice to (otherwise) "silent" images. As a con, however, I do not need my work misinterpreted as lacking direction, and I worry that this would be the end result of including this information. I also worry that people will see this as an insistence that the paintings cannot be read without the other work. I make these paintings to stand on their own and the other works I make are supplementary.

Should I include my writings and music--which intersect with my artwork--on my site?