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Lady Bay Freikörperkultur Artwork - Limited Edition of 5
Australia
Digital, Digital on Paper
Size: 16.5 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
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About The Artwork
Artist Statement Freikörperkultur I is derived from the German Naturists Movement that had it beginning in the Lebensreform movement and the Wandervogel youth movement of 1896. Emerging from Steglitz, Berlin, it promoted ideas of fitness and vigour, while at the same time, doctors of the Natural Healing Movement were using heliotherapy, treating diseases such as tuberculosis, rheumatism, and scrofula with exposure to sunlight. The Freikörperkultur und Lebensreform movement remains active throughout Europe, Scandinavia, the UK and increasingly Australia. Through out the 20th century it fostered a significant subculture producing artworks, photography and publications. The pagan movement is very active in Freikörperkultur too. Today, there are many clubs, parks and beaches which are clothing optional. Germans & Scandinavians are typically the most commonly visitors at nude beaches in France and around Europe. In Australia, clothing optional areas around Sydney were established from the 1970s that include Lady Bay, Cobblers Beach & Obelisk Beach in Sydney Harbour and Little Congwong Beach in Botany Bay. There are many small secluded parts of Pitt Water and the Royal National Park that are clothing optional. The ‘Freikörperkultur und Lebensreform Sydney’ project will bring the aesthetic from the heyday of German Freikörperkultur in the 1930s into a contemporary Sydney context. It will replicate the styles and ethos of Freikörperkultur in a contemporary art form involving local people and local places. Steve Starr
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Digital:Digital on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5
Size:16.5 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Steve’s work primary focus is on the human experience, the body positive, sexuality and gender identification, relationships and nonhuman connections. Steve engages with traditional print making techniques like screen printing and intaglio printing, painting on canvas and paper, digital manipulation and contemporary printing technologies. In addition to his art practice, Steve is a published author, curator and heritage specialist with over 20 years experience in the arts and cultural sector. The most important thing about Steve’s work is his unflinching interrogation of the human body as a site of identity, gender, sexuality, body positivity and our relationships with the nonhuman environment and our past. Steve’s practice is informed by printmakers such as Nathalie LL and Andy Warhol, gender bending performance artists such as David Bowie and Lou Reed, the colourful and engaging stories of Greyson Perry’s tapestries and the surreal photography of Cindy Sherman. Steve was educated at East Sydney Technical College, The University of Sydney, University of the Arts London and UNSW: Art & Design. He currently lives in Elizabeth Bay NSW.
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