Ghasan Saaid

Degree and Year of Graduation Master of Studio Art 2008

Research and Art Practice

My research focuses on the nature of my own critical position in terms of my own art practice, which is influenced by some post-modern and contemporary theories, presented in different arguments. The research shows my theoretical and visual experimental argument, using four art forms to reflect my conceptual ideas. I examine the exploitation of the state of phenomenology that expresses the ongoing negotiations between the sensory information and human concept to create a twisted reality and uncanny artwork.

The viewer is shown to be taking the mainstream role in my visual and theoretical investigations. There is an unconscious debate between the manipulated viewer in the artwork and the spectator, which is associated with the overall process of keeping the formal structure of practice, together with the outsider uncanny, in order to makes the lie believable.

Art has an undeniable power since Plato’s cave theory; artists can find a powerful effective idea by releasing themselves from the system. I have tried to use this power of art to temporary disengage the viewer from the known logical system, to enable me to deliver my thoughts. However, the artist and the viewer live in the same world and experience the development of life. To avoid underestimating the viewer I found myself-updating the tools of art making by exploiting technology and new media, applying several forms of art to research one idea. That can impact positively on both the concept and the spectator.

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Harris Courting Gallery, Sydney.
Universal Gallery, Kartoum.
2006
French Cultural Centre Khartoum.
Harris Courting Gallery, Sydney
2004
Alliance Francaise de Khartoum.
Alliance Francaise de Sydney.
2003
Harris Courting Gallery, Sydney.
2002
Harris Courting Gallery, Sydney.
2001
Alliance Francaise de Sydney.
2000
Harris Courting Gallery, Sydney.
Painting Exhibition "Outsider Symboles", Alliance Française de Sydney
1999
Paintings "Half Light, Half Dark", Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney.
Paintings "Heritage: Start, Finish, Start". Parramatta Town Hall.
1996
Hilton Gallery, Kartoum.

Group Exhibitions

2008
Post Graduate Degree Show, Exit Gallery, Sydney College Of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Manyng Gallery, Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia.
2005
Gallery Exposure, Rozelle.
Harris Courting Gallery, Sydney.
1997
Russian Cultural Centre, Damascus.
1996
Friendship Hall, gallery Kartoum.
1995
National Museum, Sudan.

Awards, significant honours, grants etc

1999
Camden Art Prize (Highly Commended), Camden, Sydney.
Winner of the Modern Abstract Section Liverpool Council Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.