(Chapel on Station, Box Hill, VIC, 7^th April, 2016)

• Introduce self and art background – Michel and me

“art as timeless beauty versus expressionism that speaks to people”

• Relationship with Flossie

• Creative Art reflects time/place/culture/ beliefs of the artist in a

Confusing complex world - therefore ways and approaches to art expression

• My examples: - abstract expressionism of Rothko color-field - “finding the sublime after the trauma of 1920 -45” - Fred Williams You-Yangs

• Art as teaching us to see and understand more (picture worth 1000 words)

• By aligning herself with Ai Wei-Wei FLOSSIE builds on the influences of great artists – Marcel Duchamp (influenced by cubism and self-expression over 100 years ago) who first introduced “object as art” (bicycle wheel attached to a stool by its fork).

And New York pop-artist Andy Warhol was inspired by Duchamp to produce the material objects of Heinz cans of soup and bottles of Coca-Cola for the newly emerging consumer society.

• Living in New York, Ai Wei-Wei was in turn influenced by

Warhol‘s interrogation of community values - using objects and the media to critique the repression he had experienced from the Chinese government. In regard to both his life and art he stated that “Once you have tasted freedom – it remains in your heart”.

• In line with all artists, and these in particular, Flossie’s art practise is more interested in our responses to what we see in our lives every day. As a follower of Judeo-Christian beliefs and ideals, Flossie wants to challenge her viewers by drawing on typical everyday objects to encourage reflective, loving and worshipful responses that focus on family values and the ties that bind. (Refer to LOVE COZY)
• She asks us to free ourselves from the habitual moralistic restrictions and prejudices that hinder our spiritual growth and prevent us from truly loving ourselves and others as Christ instructed.

• Flossie’s work thus aims to help “loosen the soil in our souls to allow beautiful new ideas to germinate and flourish!”

• Refer to “LEIB FRAU MILCH” and FLOSSIE