Bonnie Lane

Bonnie Lane, If You Close Your Eyes The Cars Sound Like Waves

Artist Statement
By encompassing new and old technologies including, installation, text, light, collage, sound and video I aim to produce artworks that transcend personal stories into accessible and universal works of art. My practice is concerned with the human condition explored through themes of dissolution, dissatisfaction, escapism, love, connection, intimacy, aloneness and togetherness, placing an emphasis on the importance of everyday emotions/experiences and allowing these a space to be contemplated and closely observed. Through surreal and fantasy elements, my artworks aim to achieve something seemingly impossible within the realms of reality. Reflecting upon contemporary society and generation Y culture my works are an escape from ‘reality’ and express a longing for something greater. I wish to create works that are tangible in the sense of engaging the audience with the physical space by responding to the direct environment and particular spaces including public and alternative sites, resulting in multi-sensory and experiential artworks, encouraging active audience participation. My artworks are a direct response to my own personal surroundings, resulting in atmospheric installations and artworks that aim to reach/touch/interact with the audience on an emotional, personal, and physical level and stimulate human communication. Bonnie Lane is an emerging Video/Installation artist from Melbourne, Australia. After spending 2009 living and working Berlin, Germany, Lane has returned to Melbourne to study her Honours year in Fine Art at Monash Unversity. Lane completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2007 and has since been highly active in exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and abroad in various artist run spaces, public galleries and alternative sites for exhibition. Lane has been awarded many prestigious awards in recent years including The 2008 Moreland Sculpture Show Award for Ephemeral Art, the National Gallery Women’s Association Undergraduate Award 2007, and the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Visual Arts, 2007. Lane was also a finalist in the Wallara Traveling Scholarship Exhibition 2007 the 2009 “Churchie Award” for emerging artists in Brisbane. In 2009, Lane was exhibited at the NEXT Art Fair: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Chicago, USA and exhibited in 40 trains across Melbourne as part of the Moving Galleries project and group exhibtion Interiors curated by Simon Gregg at Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne in November 2009. Whilst in Berlin Lane become co-director of 91mq Project Space. In 2010 Lane will be exhibited in the PHANTASMAGORIA art festival, at Out In The Sticks Cultural Centre, Ontario, Canada, as well as group exhibition SUB12 at The Substation, Newport Melbourne.

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