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'Pamper Day' by Aimee Sullivan
A4 Limited Edition of 25.A2 Limited Edition of 5. A1 Limited Edition of 5.
Fine art Giclée print on 310gsm acid free German Etching watercolour paper (textured matte 100% cotton rag).
“I am a recently graduated student from Papanui High School in Christchurch. For the majority of my school life I spent every day creating art in the art room at school and I plan on studying fine arts and art history in the foreseeable future. Since a very young age I have shared a close relationship with animals. This exposure I have endured with animals since I was a child is in no way ‘normal’; my pets ranging from a peacock to a pig to a pet rat which shared my first name. With a mother who is infinitely absorbed with the wellbeing of all animals (whether they be our own pets or a stray bird she has rescued), and a father whose bushy, white beard may resemble some type of undomesticated creature, my belief of there being no hierarchy between animals and humans was shaped. In my work, I want to stray from depicting a bloody, wounded animal or a sad orangutan without a home. Rather than have my artwork be shocking in a way of showing human kind's gory impact, I want to communicate a lighter sense of where our species can harmoniously progress to. I don't mean this in the sense that we should see ourselves as equal to every animal, it is obvious that a spider monkey has just as little place in a law firm as a lawyer does swinging from trees in a tropical rainforest. I think it is vital for humans to recognise that we are not above any animal, we are simply living alongside them.”
