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Steven Worrell
Steven Worrell, Gouache Girl, 2010.
The artwork of Steven Worrell is characterised by his keen interest in exploring ideas of the autobiographical. Drawing on his immediate surrounds and memories of childhood Worrell recreates the characters, events and stories that resonate in his world.
Worrell primarily utilises drawing as his preferred medium of expression using charcoal, lead and chinagraph pencil, fine-liner pen or watercolour. The nature of his aesthetic is graphic and monotone.
Worrell has produced a series of animated works as a result of his participation in the Animation program at Arts Project Australia. Included in Framing Gravity is his work Gouache Girl.
Worrell produced Gouache Girl as part of the After Muybridge project with fellow Arts Project Australia artist Lisa Reid. The Muybridge of the projects title refers to the 19th century English photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge, who pioneered stop-motion photography, or what we know today as animation. Muybridge’s techniques and particular aesthetic were a significant influence on the animations produced by Worrell (and Reid).
Worrell has exhibited extensively in group exhibitions throughout Australia.
Worrell is supported through the studio-workshop program of Arts Project Australia, Victoria.
Written by Diana Robson AART.BOXX committee member.