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Carolyn Parton Quotes

born 1964 South Africa

Carolyn Parton (born 1964) is a South African artist living and working in Cape Town. Parton is particularly interested in the impact of artists and their art making on the environment.

South Africa
Painters

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“My goal is to always look intensely at the impact of what I do in my life, where something I use comes from, what it really is, and where it’s going.”

"My art is underpinned by ongoing research into the impact of artists and their art making upon environment."

"Over the past few years I have collected spent and discarded paint from acclaimed international artists such as Marlene Dumas to local house painters."

“No matter how depressing the environmental debate can become, creative thinking and action and shift it into positive territory and has the potential to precipitate and evolutionary leap that can benefit all.”

“I build layer upon layer and before I know it, it is 10 kg.”

“Often I find that artists have an attachment to their old paint tubes, Marlene Dumas for example kept her tubes since she was a student.”

"I integrate this paint in works that can be considered as landscape due to the destiny of the paint as landfill before being reclaimed in an artwork. The weight of the paint informs the title of the works."

“I have always had an interest in where things come from and where they’re going and in my works I focus on the intrinsic connection that paint has with land.”

“I see my work as breaking down something unusable in order to build it up in the form of an artwork which ideally will be kept indefinitely.”

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carolyn Parton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.