Statment artist
Perspektif Plastik: Sebuah Renungan
Lukisan dengan limbah plastik dan plastik baru, terkadang digabungkan dengan kertas dan kanvas.
Karya seni saya mengeksplorasi berbagai gagasan dan ide tentang plastik, mulai dari dampaknya terhadap lingkungan, budaya, dan spiritualitas, hingga kemanusiaan dan sejarahnya. Saya menggunakan plastik sebagai media lukisan, memanfaatkan karakteristik efek, refleksi cahaya, dan teksturnya untuk menciptakan karya yang unik dan penuh makna.
Saya menggunakan teknik melukis khusus untuk plastik, di mana saya melukis menggunakan Tinta Polymate dituangkan ke atas bidang plastik dan dibiarkan menggenang hingga kering. Desain dibuat berdasarkan pemilahan bidang negatif dan positif, dan efek transparansi plastik dimanfaatkan dengan teknik menghapus pola dengan cairan. Tekstur plastik juga dimanipulasi untuk menciptakan efek visual yang menarik.
Konsep: Saya ingin orang-orang merenungkan hubungan mereka dengan plastik dan dampaknya terhadap kehidupan manusia. Saya juga ingin mengubah perspektif tentang plastik, dari limbah yang mencemari lingkungan menjadi media seni yang bernilai.
Karya seni saya mengajak penonton untuk melihat plastik dengan cara baru, sebagai benda yang memiliki sejarah panjang dalam kehidupan manusia. Saya ingin meningkatkan kesadaran dan kepedulian terhadap plastik, dan mendorong rasa hormat terhadap material ini sebagai sumber pengetahuan dan artefak kemajuan peradaban manusia.
Penggunaan plastik bekas dan baru, serta terkadang kertas dan kanvas, didasarkan pada konsep dan efek visual yang ingin dicapai. Bagi saya, material /medium tidak hanya sebagai elemen pelengkap(art material) ,melainkan,di hadirkan sebagai penanda, sedangkan tema besar karya saya adalah tentang plastik dalam berbagai perspektif.
Karya seni saya merupakan refleksi pribadi saya tentang plastik dan hubungannya dengan manusia, lingkungan dan alam . Saya harap karya ini dapat menginspirasi orang lain untuk melihat plastik dengan cara baru dan mendorong mereka untuk mempertimbangkan dampak material ini terhadap lingkungan dan kehidupan kita.
_Widodo kabutdo_
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MOUNTING
Long before asking me to write about his work, Widodo Kabutdo wrote to me personally, in December last year “there is a big mountain in yourself and you'll climb something piled up”. This was in response to our sharing stories of our recent lives, via Internet chat from two different countries. We met only once, in Bali, via a mutual artist friend who knew I would be inspired and intrigued by the work Kabutdo was producing.
There are many interpretations of the title MOUNTING. It can mean the act of rising to a higher point, an ascent to a higher place, a building up or a climb onto. It is also the support, the setting onto which an item is placed for presentation, such as the setting for a gemstone. Alternatively, it could be the base or foundation for a picture.
Kabutdo is concerned with issues of environmental degradation, spirituality and humanitarian matters. In response, he creates works that are both performative and interactive. For this artist, the embodied meaning in his materials and the act of collecting them is as significant as the making of marks.
A bread seller on the streets of Bali lovingly unwraps and rewraps each slice of bread as he toasts it to sell. Unsold slices are unwrapped again, the bread retained as the wasted plastic accumulates around the wheels of the tiny food cart. The artist continues this careful act, collecting each sheet, taking them to his studio to wash, dry and paint. The final work is not complete until it is installed, sheet-by-sheet in an installation on a gallery wall. The individual plastic sheets come together with the illustrations they carry. The bread seller’s story is entwined with countless other stories as part of a much larger narrative.
Self taught, Kabutdo has been working on discarded plastic since 2005. Far from denigrating plastic as a disposable, disrespected material, the artist gives value to the worthless, and meaning to the meaningless. His hand is gentle and respectful. Maintaining a reverence for the state in which this material arrives in his hands, he does not interfere, but merely interacts in a collaborative way with the object, it’s intended purpose and the narrative of its journey into his hands.
The artist sees plastic as vastly misunderstood. The nature of plastic is wondrous to him, he is fascinated by it and holds in the highest regard its qualities of endurance, flexibility and imperviousness. The scientific brilliance of its creation is also something he reveres. His dilemma lies with the universal disrespect shown to this marvelous material and how, in its waste form, it comes to be the thing that will threaten our very existence.
The imagery appears at first to be uncomplicated and almost cartoon like. His palette is restrained and mostly monochromatic. Rather than solid paint or heavy brush strokes, ink stains on plastic are translucent and fragile, like the material on which they are applied. The ink is permitted to flood and pool and dry where it rests, appearing almost accidental, echoing the random tears and irregular shapes of the plastic bags and wrappings onto which it has been applied
Faces, figures and natural forms merge with each other. Often incomplete, the characters that populate the works are universally symbolic of the nature of mankind. Each vignette illustrates a fragment of something implied as larger, a huge story, the ‘big picture’. Kabutdo’s ongoing narrative embodies us, just as the infamous mountain of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean tells us who we are. Our complete history is contained in the random juxtaposition of the countless quantities of stuff, of things and their connection to each other and each set of hands through which they have passed.
MOUNTING brings to our awareness, through the tiny fragments of fluttering plastic, the magnitude of the condition we have created for ourselves as codependents with plastic and waste. MOUNTING tells us that this issue is building up, presenting us with a challenge, an arduous task and a heaping great pile to be climbed before it can be overcome.
Cassandra Lehman-Schultz, June 2012
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Currently the Gallery manager at the Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Lehman-Schultz has held
supervisory positions at the Australian Ballet, The Victorian State Opera and Cameron
Macintosh Australia. She has successfully coordinated productions and events for organizations
such as The Brisbane River Festival, The Alice Springs Town Council, Ipswich Art Gallery and
as a project coordinator with Qld College of Art, Griffith University. She has travelled extensively
and held arts management and teaching positions in Melbourne, Singapore, Alice Springs and
Brisbane.
Awarded a Masters degree in Visual Arts from Qld College of Art, Griffith University in 2002,
Schultz has maintained an exhibition profile in Australia and Internationally. Reviews of her work
have appeared in Australian Art Collector, Eyeline, and Photofile. Additionally Schultz has
contributed to publications including Flying Arts Gazette, Art Monthly, Australiana and various
exhibition catalogues.
Working closely with Indonesian artisans and American artist Ann Wizer, Lehman-Schultz codeveloped Luminaide, an arts and design company, to develop strategies that question cultural
perceptions of waste. In 2009 she received assistance through Asialink to travel to Indonesia as
artist in residence with Cemeti Art House in Jogjakarta. Collaborating with local artists, she
developed the project The Museum of the Unworthy. Returning to Australia, she developed the
Arts Consulting service Parisʼs Sister, providing management and creative services to galleries,
artists and the creative audience.
She is passionate and committed to broadening audiences for the contemporary arts and to
extend intercultural understanding through the visual arts
Currently the Gallery manager at the Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Lehman-Schultz has held
supervisory positions at the Australian Ballet, The Victorian State Opera and Cameron
Macintosh Australia. She has successfully coordinated productions and events for organizations
such as The Brisbane River Festival, The Alice Springs Town Council, Ipswich Art Gallery and
as a project coordinator with Qld College of Art, Griffith University. She has travelled extensively
and held arts management and teaching positions in Melbourne, Singapore, Alice Springs and
Brisbane.
Awarded a Masters degree in Visual Arts from Qld College of Art, Griffith University in 2002,
Schultz has maintained an exhibition profile in Australia and Internationally. Reviews of her work
have appeared in Australian Art Collector, Eyeline, and Photofile. Additionally Schultz has
contributed to publications including Flying Arts Gazette, Art Monthly, Australiana and various
exhibition catalogues.
Working closely with Indonesian artisans and American artist Ann Wizer, Lehman-Schultz codeveloped Luminaide, an arts and design company, to develop strategies that question cultural
perceptions of waste. In 2009 she received assistance through Asialink to travel to Indonesia as
artist in residence with Cemeti Art House in Jogjakarta. Collaborating with local artists, she
developed the project The Museum of the Unworthy. Returning to Australia, she developed the
Arts Consulting service Parisʼs Sister, providing management and creative services to galleries,
artists and the creative audience.
She is passionate and committed to broadening audiences for the contemporary arts and to
extend intercultural understanding through the visual arts
Education
2010 –
Doctor Visual Arts [Research] incomplete
Griffith University, Brisbane Qld Australia
2000 - 2
Master Visual Arts [Research]
Griffith University, Brisbane Qld Australia
1999
Certificate Fine Art [Painting]
Gateway TAFE, Brisbane QLD Australia
1997
Certificate Computer training, Windows/Word/Excel/Access
Pollard & Partners, Melbourne Vic Australia
1990
Postgraduate Diploma Theatre Design (incomplete)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology [RMIT], Melbourne Vic Australia
1988
Intensive course in Italian Language, (2 months)
Universita Per Stranieri, Perugia Italy
1982 - 5
Diploma Illustrative Photography [Fine Art]
Photography Studies College, Melbourne Vic Australia
1981
Tertiary Orientation Program [Fine Art]
Caulfield institute of Technology, Melbourne Vic Australia
1980
Secondary school [Art, Art Theory, English, English Literature, History, Geography]
Ardoch High School, Melbourne Vic Austr
1991 - 1992
Duty Stage Manager
The Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne V Australia
1992
Purchasing Assistant The Nutcracker
The Australian Ballet, Melbourne V Australia
Wardrobe Mistress Midsummer Nights Dream
The Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Melbourne V Australia
1989 - 1991
Costume Production/Wardrobe Assistant/Principal Dresser Les Miserables
Melbourne season and Aust/NZ tour, Cameron Mackintosh Australia
1989
Stage Manager New Short Works
The Spoleto Fringe Festival, Melbourne V Australia
1988
Wardrobe Assistant & Principal Dresser Follies
Shaftsbury Theatre, West End London UK
Costume Maintenance & Dresser Chess
Prince Edward Theatre, West End London UK
Achievements
2008
Asialink Visual Arts Residency, Cemeti Art House, Jogjakarta, Supported by Arts
Queensland and The Australia Indonesia Institute
2008
Finalist Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award, Toyota Community Sprit
Gallery, Melbourne Vic Australia
2005
Finalist Conrad Jupiterʼs Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast QLD
AustraliaProfessional Development
speaking engagements
2011
Opening address, Wash, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009
Artists talk, Indonesian Visual Arts Archive, Jogjakarta Indonesia
Australian Fine Art Photography, Postgraduate dept ISI, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Paper Artists Making a Difference, Going Green Expo
Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne Vic Australia
Paper Sustainable Fashion, Sustainable Living Festival
Federation Square, Melbourne Vic Australia
2008
Paper Artists Making a Difference, Going Green Expo
Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne Vic Australia
Paper Sustainable Fashion, Sustainable Living Festival
Federation Square, Melbourne Vic Australia
MC Eco Fashion Parade, Sustainable Living Festival
Federation Square, Melbourne Vic Australia
Paper Waste + Art = XSProject, Pecha Kucha Brisbane Volume 3
Brisbane Powerhouse Arts, Brisbane QLD Australia
Artist Talk pouch, solo exhibition by Cassandra Schultz
Umbrella Studios, Townsville QLD Australia
2007
Lecture Ann Wizer and the XSProject, Department of Design
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Gold Coast QLD Australia
2006
Opening Address Supernormal solo exhibition by Andrew Moynihan
Watch This SPACE, Alice Springs NT Australia
2005
Artist Talk pouch, solo exhibition by Cassandra Schultz
24HR Art – NT Centre of Contemporary Art, Darwin NT Austral
Artist Talk snake eyes, solo exhibition by Cassandra Schultz
Watch This SPACE, Alice Springs NT Australia
2004
Paper Foreign Domestic Workers and ʻthe houseWORK projectʼ
National Womenʼs Studies Association Conference Women in the Middle – Borders,
Barriers and Intersections, Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
writing
2011
Article Nasi Goblok & Raja Kentut,
Art Monthly Australia, No 244, Oct 2011 ACT
Catalogue Essay, A Psychological Landscape, Independence Dead, Lugas Syllabus
solo exhibition, Taman Budyaya, Jogjakarta, Indonesia May, 2011
2010
Article, Facing the House, Commissioning a Portrait of Ipswich,
Art Monthly Australia, No. 235, Nov 2010
Article, George Dowden, Early Ipswich Furniture Maker,
Australiana, Vol 32, No 3, Aug 2011
2009
Article There Be Dragons,
Art Monthly Australia, No. 220, June 2009
2008
Text thread [...]s, Karee S Dahl solo exhibition catalogue, Rewak The Art Gallery,
College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah, Sharjah UAE
2007
Review Common Thread - DIS LOCATE, Raw Space, Brisbane, Australia
2005
Article Agency and Activism – Professionalising Practice, Flying Arts Gazette No. 90,
Dec. 2005, pp 25 – 28
2005 - 2006
Listing Contributor, Art Notes: Alice Springs, Australian Art Monthly, Canberra,
Australia
publication
2008
Article Clements, Tracey (2008), Oldies But Goodies, Australian Art Collector, #15,
Sydney Australia, pp.55-57
2005
Review Lenzi, Iola (2005), Two installations by Karee Dahl & Cassandra Schultz,
Eyeline, no.57 Winter, Brisbane, Australia, pp.33-35
2003
Review Lenzi, Iola (2003) the houseWORK project, Eyeline, no.53, Brisbane
Australia, p52
Catalogue Dahl, Karee [ed] (2003), the houseWORK project, Print Dynamics,
Singapore
1986
Review Hinderaker, Mark (1986), The Melbourne Stage, Photofile, no.2 Winter,
Melbourne Australia, pp.18-21
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ARTWORK
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TRACES OF EXISTENCE
Medium ink polymate on Waste plastic, plastic cover Disc
Size:19x13, 5cm/panel
Total:(50pannel)
2012
Price: $160 USD/pannel
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With a Pile
Medium:Solex Paper, gasso, acrylic
Size:19x25, 5cm/pannel
Total: (50 panel)
2012
Price: $175 USD/Panel
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FUTURE
MMedium: Ink Polymate, waste plastic bags(kresek),
Size:50x50cm
2012
Price: $ 500 USD
TRAPPED IN WAST
Medium ink on waste plastic
Size: 50x50cm
2012
Price: $500 USD
Strategi Dan Ilusi
Size:50x50cm
Medium:ink plastik on waste plastik ( plastic bags)
brush and bamboo
2012
widodo kabutdo
Price: NOT FOR SALE
50x50cm
ink plastik on waste plastik ( plastic bags)
brush and bamboo
2012
widodo kabutdo
ATLAS
50x50cm
ink plastik on waste plastik ( plastic bags)
brush and bamboo
2012
widodo kabutdo
Price:$500 USD
Belajar Dengan Alam
50x50cm
ink plastik on waste plastik
brush and bamboo
2012
widodo kabutdo
Price:$700USD
Tanam Gunung
Size:50x50cm
Medium: ink plastik on waste plastik ( plastic bags)
brush and bamboo
2011
widodo kabutdo
Price: $500 USD
