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LIDIA PIGOT

Lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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I am interested in painting as a means to explore the possible connections present ‘scientific society’. In the ‘scientific society’, human activities are
between a flower and a human. At a superficial level, the flower symbolizes increasingly segmented into specialized fields. These disparate fragments
the natural world and the human, the man made world. At this level, I try to of reality, including people, are represented using a variety of techniques,
explore the anthropocentric space we live in, how it relates to the natural mainly figurative. At a deeper level, both the flower and the human are
world and how we interpret this relationship. The interpretation is through made of the same particles and share the same web of life. These hidden
‘human’ eyes and from the ‘human’ perspective. The natural world is seen as connections, are illustrated mostly in an abstract manner. Acrylics, pastels,
an object to be analysed, displayed, used, and advertised as a background collage, sometimes oil and charcoal, are the preferred media.
for human activities. It is a part of a fragmented reality created by the

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SNOWFLAKES, OIL ON CARDBOARD, 40X25 CM. /16X10 IN.

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