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Peter Westwood – general art practice statement (140 words)

Select the correct word from the list below to fill in the blank spaces in this artist statement. 

Peter Westwood
The poor hospital, 2012.
Oil on linen; 92 X 128 cm.
RMIT University Collection

Words for vocabulary quiz
experience, examine, embodies, affect, reflect, approach, representation

General art practice statement:
Peter Westwood’s work [select] and comments on perpetual change as a way of articulating our contemporaneity. Adopting an [select] involving the production of paintings and their presentation as constituents of a network in the form of exhibition, his work focuses on ideas of capriciousness to [select] volatility, coming into being-ness, fleetingness and multiplicity. The effects of capriciousness or unpredictability in the experience of his artworks reveals ideas of unending transition in our times, provoking the viewer to [select] upon self, flux and permanence within contemporary capital society. Peter considers a painting an immanent [select], as much an ‘event’ as a ‘thing’. And through its painting-ness coalescing with its imagery, his works appear to present a type of inexplicable cognizance, rather than a [select] , imitation or [select]. Generally, Peter’s work embodies a ‘something’ that may only ever be alluded to visually.
 
Answers
1. embodies, 2. approach, 3.examine, 4. reflect, 5. experience, 6. representation, 7. Affect

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