Let me introduce myself my name is Jackson Tainefu
and I am a Visual Artist. My art practice consists of illustrations and animations.
Representing myself, friends, and my family as are tool to express myself
through my artwork and communicate our experiences in stories. Having
work around my family and friends that inspire me to create ideas of my
community and my culture. My cultural values play a big part in my practice and
my stories reflect my everyday experiences, for example I like to undermine
stereotypes that are usually projected onto young brown men such as myself. It
has helped me create artworks where I show the negative and positive situations
in my work. There is two sides to every story and that is how my life has been
so far being a voice for my community.
I use Adobe Photoshop
and Illustrator, working between the two programs so that they complement each
other and produce comic book style images that are unique. Flipping these
typecasts with humour and using motifs from cartoons that I used to watch when
I was young. Digital prints where I create series of work. I have been looking
at illustrations of artwork that relate to my practice and how it can benefit
me and give me ideas that I can use in my up and coming series. Animation
artists that use storyboards as a way to maintain the structure of the story. Merging both
animation and comic strips to create my own experiences.
This is all done in
an attempt to communicate my perspective and to provide a voice that portrays
my experiences in a positive light, with the intention of sharing these stories
with my community and other people who can relate to these same experiences. My
art practice has given me a wide view into another genre of animation. The foundation
of my artworks are from images where i add my own style and make illustrations.
I have recently completed my comic strip that will be presented at my
first show titled Forgive And Forget.
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