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Ö,Erdöben, The Wild Within

I have an exhibition coming up! This one has been many months in the making and many, many more in the mind!

Join me for a drink on Saturday November 29 at Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza. “We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph. D
Women Who Run With the Wolves

This body of work is the amalgamation of inspiration drawn from the written work of Clarissa Pinkola Estes, personal experience and the resilience of many female creatures of the animal kingdom.

Pinkola Estes in her book Women Who Run with the Wolves talks about the female psyche by way of folk tales and draws on the inner animal we all possess. This inner animal - the wild within – enables the heroines in these traditional folk tales to emerge victorious on the other side of disaster, danger or despair.

The creative process of this work involves the meticulous and repetitious action of dotting the paper with tiny ink dots, a process which serves as a meditation of sorts, a time to harness the wild within. My technique echoes the patience and persistence required by the female creatures my subjects represent. I use these methods to convey a sense of gentle strength in my subjects who subtly hint at a deeper truth. Posted by KIRRILY ANDERSON at 7:41 PM No comments: Labels: animals, art, artist, australia, exhibition, I&TO, iandtheothers, illustration, manyung gallery, mount eliza, portrait, portraits, portraiture, women


Street art & copyright infringement

Earlier this year I was having a drink in a local Fitzroy bar when a brochure near the door caught my eye. There were two reasons for this 1. It was designed well, and being a designer I am apt to notice these things, but more importantly 2. it strongly featured a photograph of one of my paste ups. For about half a second I felt flattered. Flattered changed to angered pretty fast and I couldn't understand why a designer would think it was OK to use an artists work like this. I understood that the paste up at the centre of this was in the neighbourhood of the apartments the brochure was advertising, but the work was so closely cropped that the local area had become irrelevant. My work was pretty much the selling point here and I had no say in it whatsoever. It was something I would have never agreed to represent with my image.

Having not been in a situation like this before I asked around about what rights I had as an artist who puts their work on the street. The views on this were mixed and I sat in limbo for a while wondering if it was worth doing something about.

It wasn't until this article about copyright and street art was published by Invurt.com that I decided I was DEFINITELY within my rights to do something about the misuse of my work.

I decided to write a letter of demand to the developers of the apartments - asking that all images of my work be removed from their website and that I be compensated for the misuse of my image. I contacted Arts Law to make sure everything I had in the letter was correct and in order. They were extremely helpful - making sure I had worded everything correctly, that the sum of money I was asking for was within reason etc.

I sent the letter off and within a week I had a call from the design agency responsible. We talked at length about the situation. From their perspective they were trying to capture the vibrancy of the area (the inside of the fold out brochure featured a map and many images of the local area) and assumed that any work in a public space would be OK to use in this way. In actual fact, this is only true of permanent sculptures. It doesn't matter if the work is legal or illegal, signed or unsigned, it is an infringement of copyright to use images of an artists work for financial gain.

The design agency and I came to an agreement, I was compensated and even though it took quite a bit of my time to chase this up, I felt it was worth it.

I would encourage any artist who has had their work used without their permission to take a similar approach - stand up for your work and spread the word that this is not OK - from my experience most people are just not aware that it's wrong. (Except surely those people selling photos of street art at markets and ripping off artist's work and selling it on Redbubble, but that's a whole other story and these cases should definitely be pursued!)

And for those people wishing to use images of street art in their advertising - we are a pretty small community here in Melbourne and it's really not that hard to find out who artists are - local councils and local galleries are a good starting point for identifying and getting in touch with an artist whose image you may want to use.
Posted by KIRRILY ANDERSON at 7:53 PM 3 comments: Labels: artist, arts law, copyright, design agency, fitzroy, illegal, image, legal, melbourne, paste-up, rights, street art Kirrily Anderson (aka I & the Others ) grew up in the stillness of rural NSW. With excited enthusiasm for the city life she moved to Melbourne at the age of 18 to study graphic design. Adding the practice of fine art to her graphic design profession in 2008, her creative practice is now an eclectic meld of visual art, illustration, street art & graphic design. With her studio located in the busy midst of Melbourne’s street art scene in Collingwood, her artwork has come full circle to reveal the quiet and reflective nature of her upbringing, while her design work keeps her connected to the fullness of the city life that surrounds her. Her murals and street art have appeared in a number of cities around the world, while her design work has a strong focus on local small business and creatives, musicians in particular.
