https://mattiemacneilartist.com Mattie MacNeil Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:45:22 +0000 https://mattiemacneilartist.com en https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Homepage Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:27:24 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Homepage Mattie MacNeil Artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand ︎@_mattiemacneil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Nu-Orchidaceae-2025 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:45:22 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Nu-Orchidaceae-2025 Nü Orchidaceae,&nbsp; 2025 Nü Orchidaceae is an ongoing series of small sculptures in which clay is moulded into orchids, the series started in 2025. The sculptures are reminiscent of past ceramic and pottery designs from centuries before to contemporary influences. The visualisation of&nbsp;Nü Orchidaceae works towards experimentation and attention to detail with form, colour and material, remaking the form of the orchid flower into framed botanical with a new elaborate form.&nbsp; Below are the completed works of Nü Orchidaceae. The price list is linked here. Inquiries can be sent through to my email mattiemacneil@hotmail.com. &nbsp; <img width="1280" height="1234" width_o="1280" height_o="1234" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d815fc73e4aac6ce4db348c787131bd91f0594d02628270654e4bba2c312270d/orchid-5--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--and-super-glue--25.5-x-25.5-x-4.3-cm.jpg" data-mid="229633766" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d815fc73e4aac6ce4db348c787131bd91f0594d02628270654e4bba2c312270d/orchid-5--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--and-super-glue--25.5-x-25.5-x-4.3-cm.jpg" /> Orchid 5# 2025 Modelling clay, acrylic paint, varnish, and super glue. 25.5 x 25.5 x 4.3 cm <img width="1280" height="1407" width_o="1280" height_o="1407" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7faaa72bc8b429877245aacc6f4486a2eefc33392e3386738292df712927599/orchid-7--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--and-super-glue--28.1-x-32.2-x-5-cm.jpg" data-mid="229633767" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7faaa72bc8b429877245aacc6f4486a2eefc33392e3386738292df712927599/orchid-7--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--and-super-glue--28.1-x-32.2-x-5-cm.jpg" /> Orchid 7# 2025 Modelling clay, acrylic paint, varnish, and super glue. 28.1 x 32.2 x 5 cm <img width="1235" height="1443" width_o="1235" height_o="1443" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f961270fa515c9853197b808aab6e23c405ba522b7e3e53f4b41c40f58597ac0/orchid-8--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--heavy-gel-gloss--and-super-glue--29.5-x-35-x-5.6-cm.jpg" data-mid="229633769" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f961270fa515c9853197b808aab6e23c405ba522b7e3e53f4b41c40f58597ac0/orchid-8--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--heavy-gel-gloss--and-super-glue--29.5-x-35-x-5.6-cm.jpg" />Orchid 8# 2025 Modelling clay, acrylic paint, varnish, and super glue. 29.5 x 35 x 5.6 cm <img width="1280" height="1323" width_o="1280" height_o="1323" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a7d29831f354b9b34bcb961b37c7141d39e8a5c3d636384a034b0be536f73bd/orchid-9--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--and-super-glue--32-x-34.7-x-6-cm.jpg" data-mid="229633768" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a7d29831f354b9b34bcb961b37c7141d39e8a5c3d636384a034b0be536f73bd/orchid-9--2025--modelling-clay--acrylic-paint--varnish--and-super-glue--32-x-34.7-x-6-cm.jpg" /> Orchid 9# 2025 Modelling clay, acrylic paint, varnish, and super glue. 32 x 34.7 x 6 cm https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Digital-Illustrations-1 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 01:44:52 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Digital-Illustrations-1 Digital Illustrations These are a collection of Illustrations done in 2024, created with Adobe Illustrator.&nbsp; I began creating digitally when exploring Adobe Creative Suite further, and exploring the creation and manipulation of shapes and colour.&nbsp; This is a continuing series, prints can become available on request through email (mattiemacneil@hotmail.com) <img width="2339" height="3308" width_o="2339" height_o="3308" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c89653cdd0dd535bdc6ae83448719346760e674ed908c36255b7302bd17d079/are-you-seeing-too-much.jpg" data-mid="214146406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c89653cdd0dd535bdc6ae83448719346760e674ed908c36255b7302bd17d079/are-you-seeing-too-much.jpg" /> Are you Seeing Too Much?2024Digital illustration14.8 x 21.0 cm <img width="3508" height="4961" width_o="3508" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcf5e6024a72fa7149b0127a7071d034a0d88ea26fb87bee695794341c8c9237/overload-of-sharp-and-sweet_final-.jpg" data-mid="214146536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcf5e6024a72fa7149b0127a7071d034a0d88ea26fb87bee695794341c8c9237/overload-of-sharp-and-sweet_final-.jpg" /> Overload of Sharp and Sweet 2024 Digital illustration14.8 x 21.0 cm <img width="2483" height="3509" width_o="2483" height_o="3509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa022c7af7d191eec99056160028c1d9848e22012d151c5e86d7f0fc34e2b718/susnet-twisted-checkers.jpg" data-mid="214146537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa022c7af7d191eec99056160028c1d9848e22012d151c5e86d7f0fc34e2b718/susnet-twisted-checkers.jpg" /> Sunset Twisted Checkers 2024 Digital illustration21 x 29.7 cm <img width="2482" height="3507" width_o="2482" height_o="3507" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6f21d9a108cd77f67a3977f65bd7d9608cd18f45a3ef86d12338a43c0bac43b/ethereal-spring-metal-final-edit.jpg" data-mid="215705217" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6f21d9a108cd77f67a3977f65bd7d9608cd18f45a3ef86d12338a43c0bac43b/ethereal-spring-metal-final-edit.jpg" /> Ethereal Metal Flora 2024 Digital illustration 21 x 29.7 cm https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Nonsensical-Sensibilities-Installation-and-Textile-Art-2022 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:57:15 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Nonsensical-Sensibilities-Installation-and-Textile-Art-2022 Nonsensical Sensibilites Nonsensical Sensibilities delves into the kitsch, cheap and stupid to craft new bodies of mixed media demonstrating material exploration and experimentation. In hypothesis, it brings up an imagined scenario of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas being read by comedy actress Jennifer Coolidge in an audiobook.The references are made out in a complex way, with only the messages in the titles in the works conveying dark intuitive thinking and mismanaged emotions as a source of guidance. Uncertainty and pessimism combined with the pastel colour palette and numerous objects personify all together to be something untrustworthy and troubling. The idiosyncratic self-observation from this collection working in a matter of stupidity by making decisions that are impulsive and without through thinking behind these choices. Critical thinking is contextualised as an after thought until establishing an aesthetic that is borderline childish and without co-ordination. The use of text and the titles are a source of guidance for the viewer to co-ordinate what they interpret from the works.Influenced but Freud’s 1919 essay The Death Drive, the interpretation of uncertainty and the uncanny as desired factors and meaningless livelihood is entertained by the installation. From there, the theme of meaninglessness is strategised in the art making. Meanwhile, the subtext of each work is a reflection though an abstract lens. From the presumed sentience of a hypothetical foetus, intertwining red velvet cake with suicide, being insecure with makeup while using excess amounts of it, incorporating cheap materials towards delusions of grandeur, a shrine dedicated to a imagined young man, and lastly staying safe away from marriage and family. Nonsensical Sensibilities was showcased in Everything in Between Exhibition at the Tusday Club in Auckland on October 2022, and in the Whitecliffe BFA (Hons) and MFA Graduation Exhibition in Novemeber 2022 at Whitecliffe College in Auckland. <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/496918da1db8aa2c16257f068eeb2761c8245cd3e0da62e15b997c2813ba6108/IMG_1301.JPG" data-mid="183750302" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/496918da1db8aa2c16257f068eeb2761c8245cd3e0da62e15b997c2813ba6108/IMG_1301.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fff752c0f25a88f86de89b513393f8d01a8cd2f1b3811c43e2522e970cb297a/IMG_1302.JPG" data-mid="183750303" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fff752c0f25a88f86de89b513393f8d01a8cd2f1b3811c43e2522e970cb297a/IMG_1302.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b915b14ece52daeb1e7851c27a4b6a810532a8b22e6a79b012c0c4c13aefa494/IMG_1303.JPG" data-mid="183750304" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b915b14ece52daeb1e7851c27a4b6a810532a8b22e6a79b012c0c4c13aefa494/IMG_1303.JPG" /> Boy or Girl, Either Way It’s Definitely a Taurus…Satin, fabric glue, diamantés, rhinestones, cotton thread, plastic bag on velour 68 x 93.5 x 8.3cm2022 <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65043ae2858ad2f9621ea826b20b8e2f18107bc50e74e2c34b46f861f485723a/IMG_1304.JPG" data-mid="183750306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65043ae2858ad2f9621ea826b20b8e2f18107bc50e74e2c34b46f861f485723a/IMG_1304.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/177175fdb0588992bda1e40a640fe70d639d71865f15d9411b22ff2e1bcb77f4/IMG_1305.JPG" data-mid="183750308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/177175fdb0588992bda1e40a640fe70d639d71865f15d9411b22ff2e1bcb77f4/IMG_1305.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa46a573b69f315c58696c4e6cf19d9ac0a213cb7a874c5248714bdfa4a4e57a/IMG_1306.JPG" data-mid="183750309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa46a573b69f315c58696c4e6cf19d9ac0a213cb7a874c5248714bdfa4a4e57a/IMG_1306.JPG" /> The Cake Really Was a LieAir dry clay, light moulding paste, acrylic paint, oven bake clay, spray paint, rhinestones, plastic beads, super glue, cake container, cake platter, and satin. 100 x 36 cm2022 <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/632d02afcadc4cdcd0804a149c1282991c477cf8eaf625a550fe3707303b01c1/IMG_1310.JPG" data-mid="183750313" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/632d02afcadc4cdcd0804a149c1282991c477cf8eaf625a550fe3707303b01c1/IMG_1310.JPG" /> Before I Off Myself, I’ll Enjoy a Slice of Red Velvet Cake…Velvet, embroidery thread, cotton thread on a knitted baby blanket. 82 x 97cm2022 <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6aec28fa5a12ee4d3311561c0ef4b2653545317a38b42d144599ffc0a473046d/IMG_1314.JPG" data-mid="183750317" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6aec28fa5a12ee4d3311561c0ef4b2653545317a38b42d144599ffc0a473046d/IMG_1314.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae1dc05e2f1508744a3c91bfc252b6809b46611822390b270b1d9acfde0bf4e8/IMG_1317.JPG" data-mid="183750319" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae1dc05e2f1508744a3c91bfc252b6809b46611822390b270b1d9acfde0bf4e8/IMG_1317.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc0f4f6dd92a94d1199e2183ad4aac85ad90a2fe5c6d508f20e7a9d994c57680/IMG_1315.JPG" data-mid="183750318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc0f4f6dd92a94d1199e2183ad4aac85ad90a2fe5c6d508f20e7a9d994c57680/IMG_1315.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e4e1d5224d1121c7010185488955713840fb7437596deaebd1510a0f172ca66/IMG_1316.JPG" data-mid="183761873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e4e1d5224d1121c7010185488955713840fb7437596deaebd1510a0f172ca66/IMG_1316.JPG" /> Safe from So-Called Good Things…Voile fabric, cotton fabric, glass beads, acrylic beads, twine wire and nylon. 82 x 313 x 58cm2022 <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29d00710f816bd392c393aaf83af91941515c305c2f80d3ab532969a73e024a9/IMG_1313.JPG" data-mid="183750316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29d00710f816bd392c393aaf83af91941515c305c2f80d3ab532969a73e024a9/IMG_1313.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86fb9ff8224bdc747037f80836fcaedc6aa838aa47608ff6fccc970aeab96cb4/IMG_1312.JPG" data-mid="183750314" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86fb9ff8224bdc747037f80836fcaedc6aa838aa47608ff6fccc970aeab96cb4/IMG_1312.JPG" /> Sorry For Your Loss…How Big Was His Nike Air Force 1s?Baby blanket, porno magazine cutouts, boxers, tie, fake flowers, paper card, paper. 100 x 36cm2022. <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/244c5f149a74ab12cc3a1c393a17dfa018a4584fa294f85a62e7ddc0d92650fc/IMG_1319.JPG" data-mid="183762178" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/244c5f149a74ab12cc3a1c393a17dfa018a4584fa294f85a62e7ddc0d92650fc/IMG_1319.JPG" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da28625cdb99660156dbd25ac34290bd0133ba0ccf2c5d3be76a6bb1f4afbbac/IMG_1307.JPG" data-mid="183750310" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da28625cdb99660156dbd25ac34290bd0133ba0ccf2c5d3be76a6bb1f4afbbac/IMG_1307.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d089598b647d2c5275afe055c08fc3786e0314e541b35e5ec79782b46cc48e08/IMG_1308.JPG" data-mid="183750311" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d089598b647d2c5275afe055c08fc3786e0314e541b35e5ec79782b46cc48e08/IMG_1308.JPG" /> I Think I Over Did It…Foundation, eyeshadow, lipstick, fabric glue, rhinestones, glitter crème, eyeliner and mirror. 60 x 72cm2022 <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe4b3eeb4177fcc402245e26544a92d3588f459ee622d211a0297b0d1de69094/IMG_1298.JPG" data-mid="183762216" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe4b3eeb4177fcc402245e26544a92d3588f459ee622d211a0297b0d1de69094/IMG_1298.JPG" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/021b6d150b5db34f7000e3f39bc8cc0cca26e0b77a168bfb2b2cd3297d167d9c/IMG_1291.JPG" data-mid="183762214" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/021b6d150b5db34f7000e3f39bc8cc0cca26e0b77a168bfb2b2cd3297d167d9c/IMG_1291.JPG" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72a2751b1a5863e682b00b484d64209889daf8750371eb26e978b47b9c620ed6/IMG_1299.JPG" data-mid="183762217" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72a2751b1a5863e682b00b484d64209889daf8750371eb26e978b47b9c620ed6/IMG_1299.JPG" /> I Look Too Good to be in a Boring Place Like This.. Organza, copper wire, jewellery chain, cotton thread, plastic flowers, twine wire, hair clips, satin ribbons and beads. 72 x 131 cm2022 https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Sadgasm-Textile-Art-2022 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 08:15:53 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Sadgasm-Textile-Art-2022 Sadgasm Sadgasm is a response towards the notions and contemporary representations of romance. The work reacts against the falsehoods of romantic ideals and mainstream portrayal of love in movies, literature and television from a perspective of disappointment, anger and apathy about how love is demonstrated and romantic ideals. This perspective is conveyed by the various objects being incorporated into the romantic theme of the installation. The title of the installation comes from a popular and mainstream animated series The Simpsons’s episode “That 90’s Show” which Homer and Marge parody early 1990’s music superstars Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.&nbsp; <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/625903013410655897dc0bca97838abd508766c25588d572629439bc46abee10/IMG_1235.JPG" data-mid="157896252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/625903013410655897dc0bca97838abd508766c25588d572629439bc46abee10/IMG_1235.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cda005dc2e751c7d37faff699e94e26415baa0d9db3a8a9b9e0f58319d8e31a0/IMG_1232.JPG" data-mid="157896242" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cda005dc2e751c7d37faff699e94e26415baa0d9db3a8a9b9e0f58319d8e31a0/IMG_1232.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cff9ea227c176170f860fe569019d426e70632ecd5132a4ebc02a7f0333ab6f8/IMG_1233.JPG" data-mid="157896244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cff9ea227c176170f860fe569019d426e70632ecd5132a4ebc02a7f0333ab6f8/IMG_1233.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1530f99acf5edecc61095ee3cc9633ba2d4bc9f1c6290d2f191bec5ed4590d62/IMG_1234.JPG" data-mid="157896247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1530f99acf5edecc61095ee3cc9633ba2d4bc9f1c6290d2f191bec5ed4590d62/IMG_1234.JPG" /> ‘Night, Sweetie’ 180 x 210 cm Velvet, satin, ribbon, cotton thread, calico, fabric paint, rhinestones, duvet inner and duvet cover. The bed installation ‘Night, Sweetie… juxtaposes the comfort a typical duvet offers, only for the written text to covey an uncomfortable element akin to falling out of love. The design of the duvet cover is intended to be excessive with a range of materials and chosen imagery in comparison to commercially sold duvet covers. The duvet cover utilises romantic motifs with the aim challenge the audience with their perception of love. More specifically at the realism and brutal honesty that come with feelings of love. <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffccb46d602a56ca3028ebc6a2568baad4333fac587a194572011605a009ab17/IMG_1226.JPG" data-mid="157896234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffccb46d602a56ca3028ebc6a2568baad4333fac587a194572011605a009ab17/IMG_1226.JPG" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1885a690b83dd014ce0047b881fafa3351fc1f1d938ca7b8a97e7f2388d804ce/IMG_1225.JPG" data-mid="157896232" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1885a690b83dd014ce0047b881fafa3351fc1f1d938ca7b8a97e7f2388d804ce/IMG_1225.JPG" /> &nbsp;Violentine 168.3 x 95 cm Razor blades, box cutter blades, saw blades, scalpel blades, jigsaw blades, pins, safety pins, BDSM equipment, condoms, lingerie, shank buttons, pearl necklance, crystal diamonds, acrylic diamonds, wax play candles, fake roses on velvet. 2022Violentine is a velvet piece with numerous objects hand stitched into the fabric to compose a relationship between what the objects and materials signify while applying tension with their weight onto the fabric. The objects are displayed in no particular order but position in a stricter manner, and the original purposes of these objects are juxtaposed. With each object skewing to wait her pain or pleasure. The work alludes to the desire of seeking a risky romance and experiencing love that goes towards extremity and a potential unhealthy relationship. <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3097b3d7c24998547bb75d4354f59d25ae6374405b5fb22d42f2915928abdd6c/IMG_1229.JPG" data-mid="157896239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3097b3d7c24998547bb75d4354f59d25ae6374405b5fb22d42f2915928abdd6c/IMG_1229.JPG" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98fdadf64a0c72d061c5bb330192a24b42ab07e879ec2a845f63c54da5ddad61/IMG_1228.JPG" data-mid="157896235" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98fdadf64a0c72d061c5bb330192a24b42ab07e879ec2a845f63c54da5ddad61/IMG_1228.JPG" /> https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Anglerfish-Complex-Works Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:20:27 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Anglerfish-Complex-Works (Note: Click on the pictures to view the videos on Vimeo) Pretty Lonely 2021 Digital video with sound. 7:06 For this performance, this is another re-examination of my inactive love life with the addition of the self reflection of my beauty. The two topics intermingle the feelings of loneliness, inadequacy and overthinking when it effects the individual's ego and confidence. Meanwhile, my room is in disarray and my SoundCloud playlist plays in a slight disjointed volume. <img width="2048" height="1159" width_o="2048" height_o="1159" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95d691fe933c48b5d83de73f476325b18d8e6873d5c88c3a6bc4ea92185504ca/IMG_1382.jpg" data-mid="127535651" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95d691fe933c48b5d83de73f476325b18d8e6873d5c88c3a6bc4ea92185504ca/IMG_1382.jpg" /> JoJo Nutella Knife 2021Digital video with sound5:06 My performance in this video was me being myself on a regular basis and enjoying my favourite things - watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, eating Nutella and playing with a knife. These elements together make up a mild but odd combination, with the combination of comfort with the Nutella and being in bed while eating Nutella with a knife and the sounds of a scene from a chaotic show.<img width="2048" height="1165" width_o="2048" height_o="1165" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69b1bc6fe9ec674f56e5ca077dd5246f892c1ada2137e9ed80759816fc167b4b/IMG_1408.jpg" data-mid="127535767" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69b1bc6fe9ec674f56e5ca077dd5246f892c1ada2137e9ed80759816fc167b4b/IMG_1408.jpg" /> Pink Kink 2021Digital video with sound6:20 min In this video, I decided to make myself and the performance be relatively sensual. The set design, hair, makeup and music are akin to sensual style, added with three print outs of three well known men - Choi Minho, a K-Pop idol and a member from SHINee, Sam Hyde, a comedian, and Michael Vegas, a porn star. Only to be juxtaposed with talking about how I would like the three men to destroy my body. This idea came from reading fan fictions online that were written in a sexual nature and kinks of an absurd nature. <img width="2048" height="1156" width_o="2048" height_o="1156" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e194ac8b4c91a0adac5dce5704eee01b0b17477ef6fc2557c29e8e2fabaa091f/IMG_1389.jpg" data-mid="127536072" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e194ac8b4c91a0adac5dce5704eee01b0b17477ef6fc2557c29e8e2fabaa091f/IMG_1389.jpg" /> Apocalypse Vibes 2021Digital video with sound7:16 This was filmed hours after the COVID level update in Auckland on October 4th, where we were still going to be in Level 3 lockdown for the meantime. It was only after talking with friends and going on social media where I observed the fatigue that my friends were having from dealing with these circumstances. In this video, I wanted to create an doomsday-like and claustophobic environment in my bedroom and act as though I was apathetic and deflated from the current events. <img width="2048" height="1159" width_o="2048" height_o="1159" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4e692c3ad77efbb2f538e3f3eab79b2b283c44d432ca409900a217e0b031961/IMG_1401.jpg" data-mid="127536083" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4e692c3ad77efbb2f538e3f3eab79b2b283c44d432ca409900a217e0b031961/IMG_1401.jpg" /> https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Anglerfish-Complex-2021-Video-and-Performance-Art-About Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:18:27 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Anglerfish-Complex-2021-Video-and-Performance-Art-About Anglerfish Complex “The female anglerfish comes in many shapes, sizes, colours and shades…of ugly. It’s like a rainbow…of ugly.” Hosea Jan Frank aka zefrank, True Facts About the Angler Fish*. Anglerfish Complex is an installation accompanied by a&nbsp;series of&nbsp;four&nbsp;performative art videos that are played for the audience to observe while in a space that is akin to to bedroom.&nbsp; The motif of this work is the anglerfish, more specifically the female anglerfish. Mainly because the male anglerfish are smaller, and their only purpose is to be the gonads for the females. I familiarised myself with this sea creature because the abnormal and creepy appearance is what attracted me to the it as well as it’s dynamics. The female anglerfish is more dominant than the male in terms of size, sexual dimorphism and purpose. There is a specific fascination and familiar identification with the deep-sea anglerfish who lives 6600 feet deep in the sea and it’s more uncanny appearance in comparison to the other species of the anglerfish.&nbsp; Establishing the anglerfish in terms of identifying to configuring my personality and my femininity is a source of comfort, while at the same time carrying feelings of insecurity, misanthropy and misery. I have studied and made work on how the feminine body and ideal are observed and critiqued, so now I want my femininity to be observed and judged. These performances were filmed in my bedroom, thereby in a metaphorical sense it is like watching a deep-sea anglerfish in a fish tank. Embodying the anglerfish allows me to envision a personality whose traits consist of being cringe-worthy, delusional, pathetic, sexually abnormal and self-deprecating. While this is an invasion of privacy and uncomfortable viewing, this self-exposure and vulnerability is a dominating presence in these performances and to test the extent of the comfort of the viewer’s experience. Anglerfish Complex was exhibited in the Whitecliffe BFA Graduation Exhibition in November 2021. *YouTube video <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7acab50ddc41d3d05264488925ed08a6dbce14e2997683ef4246ba1993de90c6/IMG_2959.JPG" data-mid="127534232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7acab50ddc41d3d05264488925ed08a6dbce14e2997683ef4246ba1993de90c6/IMG_2959.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c952e223b11ca9ab2a904a78eef08afbbbd3673dc7f8561d7c3d0add417ae246/IMG_2956.JPG" data-mid="127534230" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c952e223b11ca9ab2a904a78eef08afbbbd3673dc7f8561d7c3d0add417ae246/IMG_2956.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e57aa95a204a1233ff167f2e29a618c8961c3a014b9691b70e05ffd55fa2053/IMG_2966.JPG" data-mid="127534234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e57aa95a204a1233ff167f2e29a618c8961c3a014b9691b70e05ffd55fa2053/IMG_2966.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe3ff4b8448280b628094a90a2a7d179a68a1b7a3764959dd30b06625374417c/IMG_2965.JPG" data-mid="127534233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe3ff4b8448280b628094a90a2a7d179a68a1b7a3764959dd30b06625374417c/IMG_2965.JPG" /> https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Aingeals-2021-Soft-Sculpture-About Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:42:07 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Aingeals-2021-Soft-Sculpture-About Aingeals, 2021“Aingeal” - Irish and Scottish Gaelic for ‘angel’. Aingeals is a body of soft sculptural works made of satin stuffed with polyester wadding, with various adornments such as glass and pearl beads, crystal and acrylic diamontes, lingerie, feather boa, and BDSM equipmenmt. The enquiry of this series explores and examines the idea of the female body though an angelic and absracted point of view.&nbsp; The Irish and Scottish Gaelic origin comes from MacNeil linking three generations of her family - her grandmother, her mother, and herself - as they share a skill in sewing and working with fabrics.The values of the anti-aesthetic and the abject is moulded into this point of view, and then motifs of traditional and standard feminine beauty are then combined with those values. The various themes of luxury, high fashion, pornography, and BDSM contribute into this enquiry of female beauty. Aingeals has been showcased in a group exhibition, Urban Adolescence in August 2021 and Eden Arts Art School Awards 2021 in February 2022. <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e1a6c33572ef93d3b20da67ab8ca9c58641d2eea06ed693efc07ba2d47ed6f9/LMX00549.jpg" data-mid="115065167" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e1a6c33572ef93d3b20da67ab8ca9c58641d2eea06ed693efc07ba2d47ed6f9/LMX00549.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f64bfa855c3925638b091d26aad8a6626eb0cdfe0a1d44adf56b64a19f88167/IMG_1638.JPG" data-mid="115065320" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f64bfa855c3925638b091d26aad8a6626eb0cdfe0a1d44adf56b64a19f88167/IMG_1638.JPG" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd2eab05aaae82cfb93db4b679ab724f6b5e314a8a9c44dbfc781121996a967c/LMX00483.jpg" data-mid="115065166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd2eab05aaae82cfb93db4b679ab724f6b5e314a8a9c44dbfc781121996a967c/LMX00483.jpg" /> Images courtesy of Yoon Tae Kim, 2021. https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Aingeals-Work Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:48:12 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/Aingeals-Work Aingeals <img width="1280" height="1920" width_o="1280" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df0631cc6fcc3bf4c7a698fe6af4048f92ab85be129ff11112dfb08a450498bd/223957306_183327307163444_5431102782656689315_n.jpg" data-mid="115541735" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df0631cc6fcc3bf4c7a698fe6af4048f92ab85be129ff11112dfb08a450498bd/223957306_183327307163444_5431102782656689315_n.jpg" />Saint Victoria 2021 208.8 x 214 cm. Satin fabric, polyester wadding, crystal diamonds, acrylic diamonds, feather boa, jewellery chains, croquet wool, metal ring, cotton thread, and beads. <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/631d267fb528a40f2b65dd6855afd73b250f76bf0b97ae117f1ab28f7beefefd/224312550_1022717761870188_1939422676480670817_n.jpg" data-mid="115541994" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/631d267fb528a40f2b65dd6855afd73b250f76bf0b97ae117f1ab28f7beefefd/224312550_1022717761870188_1939422676480670817_n.jpg" /> Vanilla Crystal 2021 197 x 60.7 cm Satin fabric, polyester wadding, feather boa, acrylic and crystal diamondtes, cotton thread and feather boa. <img width="1280" height="1920" width_o="1280" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99afede5e859902e28141b726b2900d3b330a1e0564975199f5dce935e1749f3/224837682_562686085097268_6859503276686140485_n.jpg" data-mid="115541995" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99afede5e859902e28141b726b2900d3b330a1e0564975199f5dce935e1749f3/224837682_562686085097268_6859503276686140485_n.jpg" /> Debbie Teddy 2021 134.5 x 104.5 Satin fabric, polyester wadding,glass and pearl beads, lingerie stockings, feather boa, cotton thread,&nbsp; acrylic and crystal diamondtes and nipple clamps. <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bae8737e6af0544e19fee33b40f762d56520f796de2e4f399987f6fa299e428/222275388_337797504552184_7539196308560800572_n.jpg" data-mid="115541993" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bae8737e6af0544e19fee33b40f762d56520f796de2e4f399987f6fa299e428/222275388_337797504552184_7539196308560800572_n.jpg" /> Angelika 2021 388.8 x 175.8 cm Satin fabric, polyester wadding, acrylic and crystal diamondtes, cotton thread, glass beads, D rings and croquet wool. https://mattiemacneilartist.com/CV Mon, 09 Aug 2021 02:32:15 +0000 Mattie MacNeil https://mattiemacneilartist.com/CV CV Education Whitecliffe College of Art and Design - Bachelor of Fine Arts 2019 - 2021 Whitecliffe College of Art and Design - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Honours 2022 Internships SomoS Arts - Gallery and Curational Internship March - May 2024 Shows Whitecliffe Fine Arts Studio Mid-Year Exhibition Group ExhibitionWhitecliffe College, Auckland June 2021 Urban Adolescence&nbsp; Group exhibition Form Gallery, Auckland August 2021 Whitecliffe Fine Arts Studio Graduation Exhibition Group Exhibition Whitcliffe College, Auckland November 2021 Everything in Between Group Exhibition The Tuesday Club October&nbsp; 7 - 14, 2022 Eden Arts Art School Awards 2021Group ExhibitionWebb’s Auction HouseFebruary&nbsp; 5 - 7,2022 Whitecliffe BFA Hons Graduate Exhibition Group Exhibition Whitecliffe College, Auckland November 25 - 26,2022 Honors Eden Arts Art School Awards 2021 - Finalist