Current Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship Recipient - 2009

The following recipient received funding for a period of six months.

Mr Phillip Brophy
Colour Me Dead

A suite of animations for multi-screen video installations with accompanying catalogue text. An unromantic history of how artists and their art have been depicted in cinema and popular culture as mad, aberrant and psychopathic.

Phillip's project is based on critical and perceptual research into images from both high art and popular culture which reveals ways in which artists have obsessively 'imagineered' the human body in ways which qualify as psychopathic.

The 'high art' research is centred on gallery and museum visits, as well as general bibliographic research. The 'popular culture' research is split between movie depictions of artists (usually as psychos or madmen) and investigations of infamous psychopathic killers who uncannily replicate ways in which modern and contemporary artists attack, reconfigure, subvert, render and objectify the human body.

The research will provide the basis for developing a catalogue of images referencing these findings by making clear connections between famous artists and their artworks, and infamous examples of serial killers.

The catalogue of images will form the basis for a suite of animations designed to evidence the ways in which the human body has been handled by the modern 'serial artist' (repeating and replicating his vision across a body of work) and by the modern 'serial killer' (repeating and replicating his aberrant vision across a trail of bodies).