LAMIA Painting

Born Auckaland New Zealand 5/8/51. Wayne Garth Tindall. Married (40 years), two children.Nationality: Born New Zealand, Australian & Irish CitizenshipStudied painting (Diploma Fine Arts) at Canterbury University, Ilam School of Fine ArtsWorks as a Mulimedia artist, film Writer and director, poet, painter, print-maker, novelist and photographer.Having majored in painting at Ilam School of Fine Arts (Canterbury University) in New Zealand, my paintings have followed a mixed media or multimedia approach ever since. Much of the work features 3D elements via paper casts of human torsos, torn tissue paper, Plexiglass and other fixtures.A recurring theme over the past 20 years has been the juxtaposition of religious iconography with the nude. The resultant paintings have been the cause of many public newspaper and television outcries both in Australia and NZ. These public responses have placed the work in important exhibitions such as the retrospective "Moral Censorship and the Visual Arts in Australia" at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.More recently, the work has seen a fusion of multimedia elements and paint. A fusion that brings together a 15th century Renaissance invention (oil paints), with the latest digital technologies. This has resulted in some interesting work that is re inventing the way painting is both viewed and understood.Two important works along these lines recently submitted to the Archibald Prize have seen paintings that respond to both audio commands and tactile stimuli. I am now working on a series of paintings where that actual paint pigments change colour, responding to a range of environmental inputs such as touch, sound, temperature, light and even the mood of the viewer.