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.
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The Garden Path
Inket print on Aluminium
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The Clothes Line
Inket print on Aluminium
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Recursive Wisteria
This image was initially printed on fabric, then painted over with ink, re-photographed and then printed on aluminium
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Extension
Inkjet Print on Aluminium
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Shadows of Time
Acrylic Paint on Inkjet Print on Aluminium
Looking Back
(Moving Image)