Meeting and merging: painting animal/human encounters with medicine

My work focuses on the expressive potential of medicinal remedies as a medium for painting. My exploration is concentrated on aspects of the human relationship to animals in captivity and stems from a relationship I had with a caged bear when I was living in Georgia, Eastern Europe in 2011. The story of my encounter with the bear is important in this respect and I begin my text with that narrative, written in the third person so that the story has a wider resonance. My time with the bear affected me profoundly and prompted me to think more deeply about human relationships with animals and how they are expressed in contemporary art.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Michaelis School of Fine Art

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Voysey, Jo

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Siopis, Penny
• MacKenny, Virginia

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6858

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6858