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The Sum of All Parts (series)
This work is made up of nine watercolour panels that create one large self-portrait. Each panel represents a way of seeing myself, embodied in a number of forms. Painted during the 2021 lockdown periods, The Sum of All Parts explores absurd and intimate representations of myself.
Pip Ryan’s practice explores themes that surround the uncanny and absurd, using drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video. Referencing humour and themes of horror within her practice, she is interested in how these two states of consciousness overlap. Ryan often uses colour and humour to explore themes that are often dark and surreal. Ryan completed her Master of Fine Arts (research) at Victorian College of the Arts with the assistance of Australian Post Graduate Award. Ryan is an Australian artist based in Narrm/Melbourne.