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For the past seven years Ian Strange’s art practice has focused on the home and suburbia. Creating exhibitions, large scale sculptures, films, photographic works and site-specific interventions on homes. He has worked in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Japan with communities in disaster zones, affluent neighbourhoods and post GFC affected regions. Through this ongoing body of work Strange has become specifically interested in the home as psychological symbol, the emotional connection people have to ‘home’ and the sense of permanence it represents. At the centre of his art practice has been the creation and documentation of large scale site-specific interventions created directly onto suburban homes. Collaborating with large teams, technicians and with the local communities themselves these interventions involve directly marking, painting on or cutting the homes. Strange attempts to place the psychological interior of these homes onto their exteriors, revealing the home’s vulnerability and questioning its sense of permanence.
This documentary series was selected as one of four of the Arts Bites series in 2016 – An initiative of ABC Arts, Screen Australia and Screenwest. Produced by Transmedia for Change in association with No Thing Productions.
Directed by Ian Strange
Produced by Brooke Tia Silcox, Amanda Morrison, Jedda Andrews
Directed by Ian Strange
Produced by Brooke Tia Silcox, Amanda Morrison, Jedda Andrews
For the past seven years Ian Strange’s art practice has focused on the home and suburbia. Creating exhibitions, large scale sculptures, films, photographic works and site-specific interventions on homes. He has worked in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Japan with communities in disaster zones, affluent neighbourhoods and post GFC affected regions. Through this ongoing body of work Strange has become specifically interested in the home as psychological symbol, the emotional connection people have to ‘home’ and the sense of permanence it represents. At the centre of his art practice has been the creation and documentation of large scale site-specific interventions created directly onto suburban homes. Collaborating with large teams, technicians and with the local communities themselves these interventions involve directly marking, painting on or cutting the homes. Strange attempts to place the psychological interior of these homes onto their exteriors, revealing the home’s vulnerability and questioning its sense of permanence.
This documentary series was selected as one of four of the Arts Bites series in 2016 – An initiative of ABC Arts, Screen Australia and Screenwest. Produced by Transmedia for Change in association with No Thing Productions.
