ahmarnya price

The Waiting Place. Performed and Created by The Chaotic Order 2011.

2011-02-22T19:28:00.000-08:00

The Waiting Place is an intimate performance work investigating distinctions between the world outside and the world within.  
Created by interdisciplinary ensemble The Chaotic Order, the work combines animation with live performance in a series short vignettes. It’s a reflective piece – in both a literal and figurative sense – as the performers mirror the audience, echo everyday activities and fuse the mundane with the idiosyncratic. It’s art that returns your gaze in order to explore the human condition.
 The Waiting Place is at once somewhere and nowhere, a place we all find ourselves. It’s where we confront life’s paradoxes and the absurdities that variously define, embrace and confound us. 
Each of The Chaotic Order’s performers is regarded as having an intellectual disability. It’s something that informs the piece, but isn’t the driving influence. For that, we look to insight, humanity and shared experience. The resulting work is darkly humorous, transcending social, ethical and cultural definitions. It’s a rethinking of our perceived differences, and a call to what is common between us.
- Aden Rolfe 

The  Waiting Place will premiere as part of the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival at Footscray Community Arts Center. from 29th September – 8th  October. 
  To view blog go to:  http://thechaoticorderproject.blogspot.com/
and check our page at: http://footscrayarts.com/projects/the-waiting-place/   

The Reader. Volume Two.

2010-11-02T19:45:00.000-07:00

Illustration for

The Reader. Volume 2.

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to purchase a copy go to:
http://www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au/reader/

Exhibition - The World At Large 2010

2010-10-30T01:19:00.000-07:00

Gilligan Grant Gallery
(http://www.gilligangrantgallery.com.au)
Collingwood. Melbourne

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January. The World At Large
mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

February. The Fear
mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

March. Beautiful Way
             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

April. Headache             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

May. Trouble In Mind             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

June. The Lady Don't Mind
mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

July. Grace Kelly Blues             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

August. Bang On             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

September. Save Me             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

October. Asleep And Dreaming             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

November. Come Into My Sleep
mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

December. Beginning To See The Light             mixed media on canvas
H 87cm x W 112cm

Essay By Aden Rolfe.

Any  two objects placed in an appropriate space develop a connection. They  influence each other, talk amongst themselves, tell a story. ‘The World  At Large’ explores the relationship between image and narrative, between  the personal and the general, the real and the fictional. The twelve  diptychs – corresponding to the twelve months of a year – depict a  variety of characters and creatures alongside everyday objects and  abstract elements. Taking their cues from world events, song lyrics and  the artist’s life, the works are fragmentary and suggestive, leaving the  viewer to unravel the oblique meanings that might be found there.

  For ‘The World At Large’ Price has created a series of strange and  humorous scenes that place the representational alongside the  conceptual. Faces, animals and shapes are made strong and dark against  flat beige backgrounds. Figures are out-of-proportion and in distorted  perspectives. Each panel is rendered by pencil, oilstick, paint and  collage, and is essentially a drawing on a canvas. The result is a  fragmented world that seems to extend beyond the frame: a realm of  select objects, a textured limbo. In the negative space the elements  breathe. They develop relationships both tacit and overt, provoking  questions and advancing the plot.

  The energy in Price’s work is created by juxtaposition: from individual  elements interacting within the frame; from each panel speaking to its  pair; and from the works talking across the sequence. The eye is drawn  around the canvas to follow the entangled hair of its subjects, the moth  emerging from a character’s stomach, the apocalyptic gaze of a magpie.  By the lines connecting various parts of a work a story starts to  unfold, but it’s a story that’s neither fixed nor explained. Instead it  expands as the images recur elsewhere, popping up in different works  where they relate to different characters and different objects. The  narrative is open-ended and conversational, part of an incomplete whole.

‘The  World At Large’ playfully interprets the human condition, measuring the  months while rendering chaos into tight images - making sense and  non-sense from the flow of daily information. It reconfigures the public  and the personal into a world at once meaningful and absurd, unreal and  yet strikingly familiar. It’s a world that asks you to follow the lines  and join the dots, to read your own story into the sequence. A world  where meaning is made in collaboration with the viewer, and the  interplay of narrative and image invites your interpretation to round  out the tale.

Artist Book.

2009-12-14T18:57:00.002-08:00

famous heads

made from an old copy of macbeth
found in hard rubbish at clifton hill

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Grand Influences: Artists, Peoples, Sites and Things that inspire

2009-12-14T17:51:00.000-08:00

land, water and air 2008

2009-06-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Exhibition - Just Me and Yoko Ono 2008

2009-06-30T07:15:00.001-07:00

Just Me and Yoko Ono
(Self Portrait on John Lennons body
with Yoko Ono)
song:
New York City
John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band
with Elephants Memory
plus Invisible Strings

Siren and Henry
song:
Henry Lee
Nick Cave
with PJ Harvey

Siren and The Baby
song:
Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby
Emma Lou Harris, Alison Krauss
and Gillian Walsh

Siren and The Werewolf
song:
The Werewolf Song
Cat Power

Black Girl;
with Eartha Kit as Cat Woman
song:
I Want to Be Evil
Eartha Kit

Yellow Girl;
with Tokyo Joe as Bryan Ferry
song:
Tokyo Joe
Bryan Ferry

Brown Girl; with Mick Jagger
as English Breakfast Tea
song:
Brown Sugar
The Rollingstones

Pink Girl;
with Jean-Jacques Burnel
as Seagull
song:
Peaches
The Stranglers

Blue Boy
song:
Lonely Blue Boy
Conway Twitty

White Boy
song:
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash

Green Boy
song:
EVIL (Is Going On)
Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon

Red Boy; with Kate Bush as Cathy
and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff
song:
Wuthering Heights.
Kate Bush

The End
(Self Portrait with Yoko Ono as Siren)
song:
Here We Go.
Jon Brion

yoko pinada

Exhibition - 'Collage a' Trois' 2007

2009-06-30T07:09:00.000-07:00

Mrs William H. Burroughs

Look and Listen no 1

f word 2007

2009-06-30T07:06:00.001-07:00

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eggs 2006 - 2008

2009-06-30T07:04:00.001-07:00

smokin

all along the esplanade 2006

2009-06-30T06:59:00.000-07:00

farewell brisbane tattoos 2006

2009-06-30T06:55:00.000-07:00

nikki warwick and ahmarnya price

squashed eggs 2006

2009-06-30T06:27:00.000-07:00

"do i look fat in this?'

oops

Exhibition - I don't want to starve in melbourne 2006

2009-06-30T06:07:00.000-07:00

Creative Industries:
Cover for Artworker Alliance Magazine

spider, monkey and matches 2005

2009-06-30T05:51:00.001-07:00

tasmanian circus festival 2005

2009-06-30T05:41:00.001-07:00

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cigarette girl 2004 -

2009-06-30T05:26:00.000-07:00

The Lime Light Review 2004

The Limelight Review 2004

2009-06-30T05:17:00.000-07:00

nanas toot troop 2004

2009-06-30T05:00:00.000-07:00

left to right: jonathon oxlade,ahmarnya price,
neridah waters (front),dan eady, renae simpson,
trent baumann & georgie symms

lovers 2004

2009-06-30T04:55:00.001-07:00

Exhibition - Paper Moon 2004

2009-06-30T04:21:00.000-07:00

kat and fish 2003

2009-06-30T04:11:00.000-07:00

woman 2003

2009-06-30T04:06:00.001-07:00

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syntax magazine 2002

2009-06-30T03:59:00.000-07:00