What I do is dirty and it's ferocious and it's fire and fury and brimstone, it's just this place of just of grunt, heat and exertion and power.
My work's pretty much born in the dark, I create work in the dark with light, shadow play and how light moves and how it changes things and elongates and for-shortens and the line and the form is more where I'm at.
Hi my name's Dion Horstmans, I'm an artist and I'm based in Sydney.
Born in New Zealand, grew up in the Cook Islands, I left New Zealand when I was 18,19 dropped out of uni I went traveling around through the Pacific, through Europe and then down through Southeast Asia, my visa had run out in Bali, I didn't want to go back to New Zealand so I flew to Darwin cause it was the most direct place to get to, made my way down the East Coast and arrived in Sydney and just fell in love with it.
I've always wanted to be an artist that's what I ever wanted to do I've done everything you know abattoirs, fishing boats, labouring, doors, cut my teeth on film and that gave me a education how to use a massive range of different tools and techniques and finishes.
You're in your own world trying to create a place for yourself in this ever changing evolving world of art.
How I would describe my work well it's abstract geometric it's very dynamic it's an expression of me trying to work out where I stand with me.
Favorite artists is an early kid were obviously cartoons, now from there as I got older it would been early abstract Picasso, Brâncuși these guys, hard-line artists.
I've created these angular drawings with points or sculptures with points, I'm scribing a line going through one point and through another point and through another point so I'm doing these circular kind of motions there's as much consideration about the line as there is in the straight pieces.
My alarm goes off at 5:15, I turn my coffee machine on, I stretch and I'm I groan and I moan and I roll and and then at about 6: 00 or as soon as it gets light I'll go down and have a swim.
