Tim baines

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Tim Baines was born 23rd May 1972 in Bathurst NSW. In 1991 he began his career as a courtroom artist. In 1996 he enroled and began a diploma of arts at the National Art School, Sydney . Tim Baines is an artist who has been concerned with representations of artistic personae in modernist portrait images of the previous 20thC. An article in the Sydney Morning Herald - One of the first intellectual artists the school has seen for decades. He is based in Sydney and has refused to exhibit his work in local galleries preferring to exhibit in houses, halls and places that have a sense of history. He wishes to break with what he feels is the constant determinism of modernist ideals that stealthily influence our ideas of what art substantiates today. "The 'idea of artistic personae' determines that an artist is an embellisher of his/her mythic stature". "This inflects their artmaking with a constant melancholic Millennialism that imbibes our tumescent times". Tim adds "The artist is a now the signified and the work the sign, a sheer reversal that undermines important social obligations, even and often when they're stated in the work." He has also been noted to critique contemporary art that he feels differentiates less and less from Advertising and the Grapphic Arts, "Cynicism is celebrated in art where other endeavours see it as a negative mental attitude". An article titled 'Another Generation' in Art & Australia Vol 44 No 2 Summer 2006 mentions the most recent activities of the artist. they are: a narrative video installation exhibited at Artspace in Woolloomoloo where Russian vampires seek to destroy a local Penguin colony. He is currently touring with cannibal corpse as Video Projectionist artist and is in talks with French Producer Alain Sarde over a possible project, a short interactive film called ' An exercise in grief. Tim Baines will be interviewed by Phillip Adams on National Radio Australia in April, the date yet to be confirmed.