James Giddy

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James Giddy is a multidisciplinary artist who has gainedrecognition for his large-scale public art works both domestically andinternationally. Based in Boorloo (Perth), Giddy was initially recognisedthrough mural work for Form WA’s Public Project (2015) and completed a Bachelorof Fine Arts at Curtin University (2016 Degree Show).

With foundations in watercolour painting, Giddy pays homageto contrast and composition, looking to the natural environment and his nearsurroundings for inspiration. The immediacy and sense-of-place achieved by theFrench motif of ‘en plein air’ painting, translates through a lot of his muraland studio work.

Giddy’s works encourage the audience to question and bringtheir own contextual understanding to the composition, whilst providing aplatform of familiarity in the subject and its action. Through these dynamicsof a subject and its ground, Giddy often visits themes concerning the every-dayand the common civilian, whilst using the public reach of his mural work tolook at environmental awareness and conservation, drawing focus to nature in anurban environment or on a man-made structure

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