VCA ART 2020

Skye Malu Baker

Honours

Working in painting, object making and printmaking, I am deeply grateful to practice on Wurundjeri land. My practice is curious about the space between beings, objects and time, and is based in a methodology of collage. Disparate elements are invited into my studio and deployed to awaken precarious narrative atmospheres that are always incomplete. Influenced by fragments of cultural histories, the temporal slipperiness of the autobiographical and the active properties of the technologies and materials with which I collaborate, my work is concerned with the intertextual, the tension between the graphic and the gestural, and with narrative glitches in their many forms. Semiotic instability and inconsistencies intrigue me greatly and offer up undefined spaces that make way for the poetic and unsayable.

Skye Malu Baker, Untitled (tabi twins), bronze, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, Untitled (tabi twins), bronze, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Past Continuous, lithographic print, bronze pigment, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Past Continuous, lithographic print, bronze pigment, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, Untitled (grammar), bronze, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, Untitled (grammar), bronze, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Future Imperfect, oil and pencil on board, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Future Imperfect, oil and pencil on board, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Past Continuous (Template), Mild steel, lithographic stone, lithographic crayon, touche, bronze pigment, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Past Continuous (Template), Mild steel, lithographic stone, lithographic crayon, touche, bronze pigment, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Past Continuous (ghost print), lithographic print, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, The Past Continuous (ghost print), lithographic print, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowsky.
Skye Malu Baker, graduate exhibition installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Skye Malu Baker, graduate exhibition installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Skye Malu Baker, graduate exhibition installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Skye Malu Baker, graduate exhibition 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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