Queen maker Rob Oakeshott an independent member of the Australian Parliament has been scorned by a prominent National Party Senator over reports in the local press referring to his earlier attempt to seek a ministerial role in the NSW State Parliament. Oakeshott is on the verge of announcing if he will accept an offer by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take on a Ministerial role in her new government for regional affairs. Contrary to a warning from Opposition Leader Tony Abbott for opposition members to cease criticizing Ex National Party member Oakeshott, Senator Barnaby Joyce attacked Oakeshott for not being impartial in the negotiations on whom to support in forming a minority government. Joyce claimed shock and outrage existed over Oakeshotts support of Gillard to form a Labor government.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

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