Brief notes on why these artists are relevant to me..

Nadine Feinson:

I have chosen this artist mainly because I am attracted by how she indulges in a process of tactile exploration with her paintings; what she calls as ‘mapping’ sensations, and articulating ‘thinking’ through forms. I feel she is very bold in her experiments and she has a strength that transpires through her ideas. She argues how the notion of temporality plays a critical role in her concerns, particularly what she calls the ‘non-linear’ notions of time. For her, paint is understood as an extended temporal material with the potential to infiltrate to the edges of perception. As myself, her practice investigates the mechanics of image formation, particularly the gesture and mark-making processes and the resulting qualities of surface.

Alistair Mackie:

Alistair Mackie is fully involved with the organic. Like myself, he is inspired by the way organic forms such as dead leaves take on a new character when placed in built environments such as the white-walled studios of urban London. However, where he would be bringing these organic materials to the gallery space, I would be more focused on bringing a created version reminiscent of these organic elements so as to remain true to the environment that has not been altered in any way by my intervention. He cleverly plays with the sense of duality (opposing elements) which are remarkably interesting as involving nature with culture, work that by his own description “makes sense and no sense at the same time”. He pays special attention to the space where the artwork is finally set up for there have to be connections that would be felt as a whole. He lives in isolation on a cliff-top farm on the north coast and he is interested to see what effect this can have on his works. For him as well as for me, "The Place" is very important: it is where all ideas generate themselves. I feel connected to his ideas as he says : Everything is in transformation all of the time. My experience of the world is one of knowing and not knowing, of being in control and not being in control.. 

Perdita Phillips:

This Australian artist held my immediate interest as her works are concerned with a wide range of media including sculpture, drawings, installation, photographs and sound and short videos. Working with objects, environments, found things and made things, she creates a world where everyday entities and events are brought out of their invisibility. She extends an invitation to immerse yourself in a richer reality overflowing with humour and wonder. In her statement, it is being said that: After years of wrestling with the ideas of beauty and wildness she has decided that things are not simple: they are complex and contested and worth fighting for.

There is a strong "performative" aspect in her process that is also close to mine which made me choose this artist at the first place. Her ideas about beauty is associated with the sense of wonder as explained by this extract:

An extract from the 2008 Multicultural Cosmologies catalogue essay by Penny Bovell for the exhibition in the Cosmology Gallery at the Gravity Discovery Centre in Gingin.

An artist’s intention might be to provoke a sense of wonder rather than search for a particular truth or follow a belief… both [art and science] fields rely on experimentation to forge new ways of explaining things about the world....Perdita Phillips’ digital photographs Night Visions are of a field trip and attempts to merger scientific and artistic methodologies…The cross-overs and connections between the different artworks about the creation of the universe and our place within it evoke unity through diversity far greater, or more powerfully than individual artworks, cultures or fields of knowledge could possibly do.

Some of her ideas which are similar to mine are: strictly close to detail, the sense of beauty and wonder, being Eco-friendly, works of art considered as projects..
Some ideas in which we differ: too much text, documentation/research in forms of texts.