Lori Pensini is a finalist in the SWAN 2024 with these poignant artworks titled 'The song of Myself'. This works, among others can be seen at The Bunbury Regional Art Gallery now till Sunday 21 July 2024.
artist statement: In this current work I have extended focus from illustrating figurative oils on the conventional medium of canvas linen to working with composite raw materials - repurposing found natural forms and native flora in our bushland and overlaying with painted imagery. By regenerating storylines on mixed natural resources, I seek to examine the concept of placement. Firstly, self placement within family culture, who am I? who has shaped me? and the environmental imprinting influencing ones bearing and identity. I recall as a child our old farm house, a derelict timber ruin with crumbling walls of ill fashioned daub, well on its way to returning back to the earth I consider know before we moved in. I have regenerated this memory, like the house, rebuilding it from the earth, drawn in particular to the conviction that both the environment and the faculty of the mind, the memory, are metamorphic and perishable. The recasting of the organic wattle and daub is a considered reflection of our transience and its homespun greenness reflects the ‘make do’ approach to life of my rural heritage.