Audio Transcript
It’s Antoinette Ferwerda and I’d like to share with you my Gossamer art story, which is inspired by Brutalist architecture.
When I imagine Brutalist architectural buildings, I think of them as minimalist with bare building materials including concrete and brick.
So, I wanted to reimagine and explore Brutalist structures made from glass instead of opaque building materials.
My Gossamer artworks have a challenge and optically ask the viewer to virtually walk through planes of glass, providing a three-dimensional effect.
The Gossamer art story creates architectural structures inspired by Brutalist and Spanish Mission Revival Architecture, influenced by Antoinette's personal experiences living in a 1930s Art Deco apartment in South Yarra.
Her interpretation of solid structures using angular, hand cut collage and sophisticated layering techniques explores three-dimensional spaces, developed using transparent walls and box-like forms.
