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| Adrian Lazzaro, The haunted mask, 2011, dry point Image courtesy of Arts Project Australia |
Adrian's work reveals a deep engagement with what it means to be human. This was exemplified when Adrian's figurative works were included in the exhibition ‘Revealing the human’, curated by Professor Colin Rhodes. That great exhibition was accompanied by a fantastic symposium on art, intellectual disability and the role of the specialist studio.
Adrian was asked to speak at the Revealing the Human symposium. With playful language, aliteration and humour Adrian spoke of his own human nature and of his artistic ability as supernatural.
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| Artsworkers Christina Hayes & Bernadette Trench-Tiedemann in coversation with artists Adrian Lazzaro and Jodie Noble |
What followed, over the last three years, has been an ongoing discussion of what it is like to be supernatural in an every day sense... Because Adrian' family, like ours, has an affinity with the sea we talked a lot about that as well. Adrian wrote down for us a fishing tale told to him by his dad. It reminded us of stories of Selkies told to us by our father who is a former sailor.
For those who don't know, Selkies are supernatural creatures who are seals that can shed their skins and take on a human form on land. Since seals are one of Adrian's favourite animals and are potentially supernatural humans it didn't take long for us all to head to the Melbourne Zoo and undertake some research.
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| Esther, Adrian and Rebecca sketching away |
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| The Deep Sea Seals were perfect life models |
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| Waving to Christina behind the camera |
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| Adrian with the immortal seals at Melbourne Zoo |
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