VCA ART 2020

Raoul Chapman

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

Viewing, being viewed, imagining hidden truths, reinterpreting and transforming, create the notion of the Abstract Other. Using memories captured at another time and place, the images I create continue to metamorphosise and transmute both materially and in the eye of the viewer. Initial captured experiences are taken through a process of change, creating an emotive and abstracted representation of what was initially experienced or contemplated. Images of structures and people morph and blur yet remain connected to their source.

The textural quality of inks informs the works. The Photographic Archive is referenced through experimentation with negatives, contact sheets, analogue and digital photography, and printing methods. Through multiple photographic processes the importance of moments in time, ideas of unclear difference, and the viewer's ability to reimagine a new direction are created. My intention is to reinterpret and recast.

Raoul Chapman, *East Berlin - The Abstract Other*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, East Berlin - The Abstract Other, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, *The Lost Couple 1*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, The Lost Couple 1, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, *The Lost Couple 2*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, The Lost Couple 2, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, *The Lost Couple 3*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, The Lost Couple 3, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, *The Lost Half King*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, The Lost Half King, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, *The Lost Burnt Memory*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, The Lost Burnt Memory, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, *The Lost Photographer*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, The Lost Photographer, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, *The Lost Moment*, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, The Lost Moment, archival pigment print, 2020
Raoul Chapman, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Raoul Chapman, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

Kirsten Browning
Raoul Chapman
Jett Dalmau
Maryse Dubois
Domenyk Eades
YJ Fauzee
Marie Honore
Sixia Hu
Prudence Illingworth
Bethany Joyce
Kate Lewis
LOZ
Fiona Martin
Nick Millen
Brock Q. Piper
Al Pomroy
Maree Purcell
Joanne Reidy

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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