Strawberries in a nut shell
Eating Strawberries began in a bedroom on the far side of the world by a woman who was sick of being overlooked
Artist Eating Strawberries' first work was a poem called "Gothic Promise" which captured the eyes of some established artists on the internet in January 2010, which lead to a rapid increase in artistic exposure.
Strawberries, now an established artist, specialises in fine-art alt fashsion portrait photography, gothic and grunge digital photo manipulations, and drawings, along side her poetry and gothic short stories. She bases her work on her love for the Gothic sub-culture, Music, cinema and theatre, and as any artist does, her own life experiences.
She also experiments with filmaking and script writting.
She started her art in 1997, when she entered the Australian Red Cross competition, with a drawing depicting the kind of wrok the red cross do, and won the state wide award for Victoria, Australia. From there she continued to practice and explore art as much as she could with the limited access she had to the art world.
She won her fist camera, a Minolta, in 2000, from the state "Water for Life challenge" in Victoria, Australia, which promoted the use of saving water, and from there a love of photography was born.
Her work has been featured on numerous occasions on the website http://www.redbubble.com/, published in the Earth Monster Initiative Blog, Touched by Fire Art Bog, online magazine The Pink Panther and Milk Magazine.
Her latest works have begun to explore the effects of her rural suroundings on mental health in women of country australia, focusing on the strong emotions that run through younger women who feel trapped by the rural up-bringing. Theses works can be found on Red Bubble. Strawberries' work has been previosly exhibited in a group art show, "Exhibition 2010" and "Exhibition 2011", in Morwell, Victoria, her first solo show, November 2011 at the Riverstone Cafe, Briagolong, Victoria, titled, "Animal Kingdom", and exhibition "Mental Mosters" in Febuary 2012.
She has participated in Artists Wanted:Open Call 2010, 3rd Ward: Open Call 2010 Artists Wanted: Self 2011, 3rd Ward Focus Project 2011, Australian Head On Portrait Prize 2011, and Artists Wanted: One Life, Art Takes Times Square and The Maquarie photographic prize 2012.
She uses a Nikon D3000, a 2005 model Pentax *ist DL and 2009 model Fujifinepix S8100 fd for her photographs, and Photoshop Elements 7 for her psot work.
Strawberries currently resides in Gippsland, rural Victoria, Australia, and is studying a bachelor of visual and media art at Monash University, to be completed at the end of 2011.
Strawberries said of her work:
"I wanted to do something different, something that would define me as an artist. People and personalities fasinate me, and I've always been curious about emotions and memeories, and how someone can be so affected by an idea. I think my art reflects that, often what you see in my work is the moment that my model's true identy came to life in front of me, and what you are left with is raw emotion and a true person, regardless of costume and make-up. It's about that split second when you forget that there's someone watching, and you give in to the moment of love or pain or greif.
I love that art can be so experimental and conceptual. I love that there is no right or wrong answers, just new ideas. Artists are the highlighters if society, we are the ones who stand out form the rest and say what is right and wrong with our modern society. We go against the social norms, and that is the best thing about being an artist."
Artist Eating Strawberries' first work was a poem called "Gothic Promise" which captured the eyes of some established artists on the internet in January 2010, which lead to a rapid increase in artistic exposure.
Strawberries, now an established artist, specialises in fine-art alt fashsion portrait photography, gothic and grunge digital photo manipulations, and drawings, along side her poetry and gothic short stories. She bases her work on her love for the Gothic sub-culture, Music, cinema and theatre, and as any artist does, her own life experiences.
She also experiments with filmaking and script writting.
She started her art in 1997, when she entered the Australian Red Cross competition, with a drawing depicting the kind of wrok the red cross do, and won the state wide award for Victoria, Australia. From there she continued to practice and explore art as much as she could with the limited access she had to the art world.
She won her fist camera, a Minolta, in 2000, from the state "Water for Life challenge" in Victoria, Australia, which promoted the use of saving water, and from there a love of photography was born.
Her work has been featured on numerous occasions on the website http://www.redbubble.com/, published in the Earth Monster Initiative Blog, Touched by Fire Art Bog, online magazine The Pink Panther and Milk Magazine.
Her latest works have begun to explore the effects of her rural suroundings on mental health in women of country australia, focusing on the strong emotions that run through younger women who feel trapped by the rural up-bringing. Theses works can be found on Red Bubble. Strawberries' work has been previosly exhibited in a group art show, "Exhibition 2010" and "Exhibition 2011", in Morwell, Victoria, her first solo show, November 2011 at the Riverstone Cafe, Briagolong, Victoria, titled, "Animal Kingdom", and exhibition "Mental Mosters" in Febuary 2012.
She has participated in Artists Wanted:Open Call 2010, 3rd Ward: Open Call 2010 Artists Wanted: Self 2011, 3rd Ward Focus Project 2011, Australian Head On Portrait Prize 2011, and Artists Wanted: One Life, Art Takes Times Square and The Maquarie photographic prize 2012.
She uses a Nikon D3000, a 2005 model Pentax *ist DL and 2009 model Fujifinepix S8100 fd for her photographs, and Photoshop Elements 7 for her psot work.
Strawberries currently resides in Gippsland, rural Victoria, Australia, and is studying a bachelor of visual and media art at Monash University, to be completed at the end of 2011.
Strawberries said of her work:
"I wanted to do something different, something that would define me as an artist. People and personalities fasinate me, and I've always been curious about emotions and memeories, and how someone can be so affected by an idea. I think my art reflects that, often what you see in my work is the moment that my model's true identy came to life in front of me, and what you are left with is raw emotion and a true person, regardless of costume and make-up. It's about that split second when you forget that there's someone watching, and you give in to the moment of love or pain or greif.
I love that art can be so experimental and conceptual. I love that there is no right or wrong answers, just new ideas. Artists are the highlighters if society, we are the ones who stand out form the rest and say what is right and wrong with our modern society. We go against the social norms, and that is the best thing about being an artist."