Ian Strange (born 1983) is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist. His work investigates space, architecture and the home, alongside broader themes of disenfranchisement within the built environment.
Strange lived in
Perth
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as a child, and is now based in New York.
He is best known for his 'Suburban Intervention' projects and exhibitions. Using the suburban home as a canvas, Strange's work incorporates large-scale projects, film, photography, site-specific installation, sculptural installations, drawing, painting and on-going research projects
Independent art advisor Sarah Crown has said that ''"Strange's monumental interventions exist on two extremes of the spectrum of destruction and of elevation. By doing so he challenges our understanding of home and safety."''
Strange has presented a project in the NGV Studio space at the
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum.
The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...
,
Suburban', 2011-2013 The Canterbury Museum
Final Act', 2013 as well as having participated in the 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the
Art Gallery of South Australia
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with 'LANDED' a commissioned sculptural installation on the forecourt of the gallery. 'SHADOW'
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Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak album ...
a large-scale project incorporating suburban homes, documented in film and photography for PUBLIC Festival 2015; and 'ZŁOTY', a site-specific intervention onto the exterior of a historical building commissioned by the Intytucja Kultury, Katowice, Poland
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Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak album ...
He most recently collaborated with Standard Practice, a New York-based
Artist Run Initiative, to present his body of work SUBURBAN on
Bowery street in New York, May 2016.
In 2017, a documentary was released and broadcast by
ABCTV under the title ''HOME: The Art of Ian Strange''
In 2018 the
State Library of Queensland
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commissioned Strange to produce a work inspired by the
Frank and Eunice Corley House Photographs Collection. In response he produced a large scale charcoal
triptych
A triptych ( ; from the Greek language, Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) t ...
drawing titled 'Sixteen'. The work was first exhibited in the Home: a Suburban Obsession exhibition, which was on show in 2018 and 2019.
His work is included in public collections, including the
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia,
Art Gallery of South Australia
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,
Art Gallery of Western Australia
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, and the
Canterbury Museum, New Zealand.
See also
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Installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...
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Art intervention
Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, venue/space or situation. It has the auspice of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is associated with the Viennese Actionists, the Dada mov ...
References
External links
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Ian Strange and 'Home: a Suburban Obsession' Exhibition' Digital Story- State Library of Queensland
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1982 births
Australian artists
Living people