The Theresa Byrnes Projects
My new manuscript follows directly on from my previous autobiography (The Divine Mistake) about moving my life from Sydney and re-establishing it in New York - the adventures, the challenges, the people, the magic, the trials and exhilaration.
This manuscript, my new autobiography is an example of how to blaze a path not yet cleared.
Told by doctors I would be dead by 40 the only force I feel is to survive doing what I love.
Words and paint are ropes that lift me from “passenger seat” and swing me to a conscious and divine life.
In this manuscript I articulate the process of my painting and my determined life of making them.
My new manuscript follows directly on from my previous autobiography (The Divine Mistake) about moving my life from Sydney and re-establishing it in New York - the adventures, the challenges, the people, the magic, the trials and exhilaration.
This manuscript, my new autobiography is an example of how to blaze a path not yet cleared.
Told by doctors I would be dead by 40 the only force I feel is to survive doing what I love.
Words and paint are ropes that lift me from “passenger seat” and swing me to a conscious and divine life.
In this manuscript I articulate the process of my painting and my determined life of making them.
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MISSION STATEMENT
I am painter and performance artist. My art has become increasingly concerned with our culture and community at large. All my performance art is political, a social commentary and my painting that precedes the development of a performance (or follows) is a deep contemplation of the issues particular to it. My work and especially my performance art bring into focus our core behaviors and beliefs that combine across the globe to affect the human condition. Acts of government and nature can leave the individual feeling powerless but also faultless. It is my aim to make people aware of how we collectively pull the stings, to be critical of knee-jerk thought patterns by questioning the way we are programmed.
As my career as an artist progresses I become a lot more interested in the big philosophical picture, what mental and emotional constructs make the world-go-around. As an artist I feel it a responsibility to become aware of this civilization‘ paradigms with a view to shifting the psyche to make real and lasting change for the betterment of the planet. This sounds lofty but my approach as a painter and strong community member is gritty and grass-roots.