Juniper Martin
Arts Upper Hunter
I am a young creative from the upper Hunter region, based on Gringi land, with a keen interest in pursuing a career within the film and music industry. I have been a part of various initiatives within the music field and love to immerse myself in live performance and production, finding all the ways that sound can be created and transformed a fascinating process.
This fascination is transferred – and maybe even amplified – to the world of film, with my strong passion for storytelling and the power of film as a medium. My experience within both the music and film industry has been limited due to my young age and skill level, though the things I have learned from the opportunities I have been granted are invaluable, and I’m ready for more. Simply put: more than half my brain is occupied by some of the most amazing, soul-crushing, life-altering pieces of art at any given moment, just floating around in the vacuum of my mind; and accompanying that is the desire to create the very same work that I so admire, so that I might inspire someone just like me, an explosion of ideas just waiting for the right detonator.
Links
The Lamb
Artwork description
The Lamb, Work in progress 2024, Short film concept proposal
Artist Statement
The work I have chosen to submit is a short film idea/pitch that I’m hoping to workshop and inevitably (fingers crossed) make. I put a little piece of myself into everything I create, and perhaps ‘The Lamb’ more than others. It is just an idea that I feel to my very core, in every step I take. I have always felt as though my body was never meant for things like meetings and PE and the work cycle, my mind not possibly built for processing the entirety of the world’s information, all of its cries, its celebrations, its sorrows, and quite literally billions of other beings just as intricate as I. ALL. AT. ONCE. We are in uncharted territory, and I find it’s extremely important to recognise that our exhaustions, our anxieties, our sadnesses are not the result of our own failures but our bodies trying to keep up with this crazy world, a world I personally believe was never meant to happen. But it is kind of beautiful that it did, that against all odds, every cell in our bodies in every corner of the world is begging to live just one more day.