“The Shape of the Sky”
This show runs 4th to 22nd September at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane.
I will be available to chat to on Saturday 5th September from 10-2pm and at the same times on the 12th September.
Click to see the page for this collection and further details.
Two main themes characterise this collection: one is the use of geometric planes and other simple forms to articulate the space around and interact with both figures and landscapes, an abstraction of the Renaissance preoccupation with the perspectival setting. The other theme is the specific effort to pursue imagery, mood or poses without having an intentional meaning before beginning the work, and instead follow elements that seem to be tapping into my unconscious in some way. I have attempted to listen to the impulses coming from the images and allow them to become what they will, trusting the sense of fascination or intrigue as a guide to the generation of an image that will resonate with others. How and where a line touches the skin, or what a pose without clear narrative content says, or how natural form pushes against an artificially geometric form seems to contain psychic content that perhaps cannot be concretised in other ways.