Teagan Rundle

Singleton High School

LIFE'S IMPERMANENCE

Painting

Acrylic on canvas

My body of work is a series of paintings inspired by 17th century Dutch still-life paintings and Sam Leach's practice of using AI to generate compositions that are then painted in a traditional manner. In the period known as the Dutch Golden Age, paintings featuring the material richness of everyday life were popular. They illustrated the society of the time as being filled with lavish flowers and luxury goods, but the compositions carried deeper symbolic meanings. Life's Impermanence represents items traditionally seen in those works then progresses slowly to items that are more contemporary and familiar to modern day society.

My artmaking practice is influenced by the study and interpretation of the following artists: Sam Leach, Clara Peeters, Maria van Oosterwijck, Willem Kalf.