VCA ART 2020

Maryse Dubois

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

My practice explores ideas of representation, beauty and the female experience. With my work I question Western ideals of beauty and how the female body has been historically depicted.

As a multidisciplinary artist, I work across photography, digital collage, sculpture and oil painting. My works are personal; I include my own body in the digital collages as an ongoing dialogue with my own sense of fragmented identity.

My surrealist landscapes and decayed sugar sculptures question our societal obsession with beauty through reclaiming and re-representing objects associated with traditional femininity. In a range of mediums, my works engage with issues of scale, colour and soft shaping.

Maryse Dubois, *New World* and *Bodyscapes*, archival prints on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, New World and Bodyscapes, archival prints on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, *Untitled Flower #4*, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, Untitled Flower #4, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, *Untitled Flower #3*, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, Untitled Flower #3, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, *Untitled Flower #5*, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, Untitled Flower #5, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, *Untitled Flower #1*, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, Untitled Flower #1, fondant (sugar), 2020
Maryse Dubois, *Reflections*, archival print on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, Reflections, archival print on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, *New World*, archival print on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, New World, archival print on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, *Exposed*, archival print on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, Exposed, archival print on Canson Cotton Rag 310gsm, 2020
Maryse Dubois, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Maryse Dubois, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Maryse Dubois, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Maryse Dubois, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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