John Pagnozzi

Cairns

John Pagnozzi (1985) is an artist working with drawing and writing. John approaches drawing as a haptic experience influenced by immediacy, mood and poetry. His work explores spontaneity as a method for the practice of object making, foregrounding intuition over notions of efficiency and rationalism. Using a material led approach the work functions to deal with the disembodied nature of experience and information exchange, finding meaning in associations amongst everyday materials; crayon, sand, spray paint, house paint, textile. Underlying the work is an interest in the space of communication, the possibilities that arise from ambiguous pictorial spaces and the effects these have for the making of personal and collective meaning.
 
Art projects include:

  • ‘Shift’ for Next Wave Festival and Bus Projects
  • ‘600ML’ for South Australia’s Integrated Design Commission.

 
Written works include

  • poem ‘Thinking.2’ for Cordite Poetry Review
  • ‘A large mountain landscape’ for UN Magazine issue 8.1
  • Curatorial project ‘01-01’ comprising responses from eight Australian poets for UN Magazine issue 8.2.