Transition in Place

Explorations in Digital Painting

Aug 29 -Sept 9 2018

Black Cat Gallery Collingwood, Melbourne


This body of work referenced the severe ill health and physical absence of my mother and a time when my family was trying to ensure that her home and garden were kept in a perpetual state of constancy. In these images, I explored the relationship of memory, place and time as well as various forms of ‘digital painting’. Exploring the shadows and the threat of other forces beyond our control, I investigated the fragility of our past and of our family memories and how change is an inevitable process - always threatening. Altered dimensions and gradual transitions are central to the work with memories of self and place intertwined and in constant change. The prevalence of shadows, use of transformative colours and of moving images and fabric especially represented these processes for me. There were various types of digital paintings in the exhibition and a variety of printing surfaces, including aluminium composite panel and fabric. The exhibition included still and moving images as well as ‘overpainted’ still and moving images. Consistent with the theme of transition, some images also had the process of change integral to them - namely, a digital print was printed on fabric, but then further ‘overpainted’ with silk paint, re-photographed and re-printed.

  • The Garden Path

    Inket print on Aluminium

  • The Clothes Line

    Inket print on Aluminium

  • Recursive Wisteria

    This image was initially printed on fabric, then painted over with ink, re-photographed and then printed on aluminium

  • Extension

    Inkjet Print on Aluminium

  • Shadows of Time

    Acrylic Paint on Inkjet Print on Aluminium

 
 

Looking Back

(Moving Image)

The tree in this moving image is one from my mother’s garden and was planted by my (deceased) father. The work explores how the process of looking back might have transformed my memories of that place and associated family times. The colours are happy ones but they are also highly saturated, which reflects a sense of distress associated with the process of looking back.