George Mason Visual Art Scholarship
The George Mason Visual Arts Scholarship
2020 recipient
Tessa Barry
Hyde 2020. Courtesy the artist.

Hyde 2020. Courtesy the artist.
These photographs were taken inside my Grandfather’s workshop where I enjoyed investigating different perspectives of various objects. This encouraged me to continue experimenting after the photographs were taken to produce several photomontages.
I’ve drawn inspiration from how I perceived the workshop when I was very young. As a child this space was almost an alternate universe that challenged the reality in which I was being led to believe. I think my Grandfather would have liked what I’ve created.
Changing visual perspectives leads to questioning our perspectives metaphorically. Am I right to see the world the way I do? Can my art help people reconsider their own perspectives?
Next year I intend to go to Victoria University of Wellington or Auckland University to study architecture which will take my experiments with space to a new level. I can imagine my photographs as inspiration for buildings.