Jodie Di Natale
Master of Contemporary Art
As a figurative artist, I use drawing and painting mediums to generate large scale psychological artworks that examine bodies wrapped in authoritarian attire and the synthetic skin of hazmat suits. My practice is informed by police, soldiers, saturation divers, scientists and others who operate within physically and psychologically threatening environments. These human subjects require endurance and psychological stamina to survive and do their jobs. My work also investigates artificial life-preserving apparatuses, such as facial encasement devices and various impermeable body suits that are used by agents as survival enhancement technologies in hostile environments. A fragility emerges from the psychological armour that ties uniform to agent.
