Exhibitions Opening Night | Ladder Art Space, Melbourne
Please join us for the opening celebration of our upcoming exhibitions at Ladder Art Space, and enjoy the chance to meet the artists!
Figurative works reflect how a culture understands and values the body.
At its’ most relaxed it can be intimate, casual and comforting. Alternatively, it can be radical, critical and aggressive. But it also talks about our cultural attitude to expectation, conformity, separatism, transgender and idealism.
These figures are simplified, overlapped, inverted, with a play of positive and negative. Often with a nod to the Italian “Futurists”, Analytical Cubism or Queenslander Ian Fairweather.
While the compositions are contained, we get a sense that the figures continue in either direction much like a detail of a Grecian frieze, the Bayeux Tapestry, or the repetitive sounds of Phillip Glass’ music but in this case it’s figures, repeated and repeated and repeated.
Our bodies are part of our complex modernity, not symbols of predictability or perfection.
Over the last few years I have been working on a series of ink paintings featuring the theme “rock and other heavy burdens”. My aim is to convey the often desperate and clearly dire state of the world but also the unrelenting beauty of all things natural.
I hope to produce weight and volume in my rock subjects, those things which weigh us down or sink us to the bottom. However, the subtle layering of ink and use of repetitive lines has produced a delicacy that lightens their load. While the underlying sentiment is pessimistic, I primarily want the images to celebrate all earthly treasures right down to the bedrock.
Please join us for the opening celebration of our upcoming exhibitions at Ladder Art Space, and enjoy the chance to meet the artists!
Figurative works reflect how a culture understands and values the body.
At its’ most relaxed it can be intimate, casual and comforting. Alternatively, it can be radical, critical and aggressive. But it also talks about our cultural attitude to expectation, conformity, separatism, transgender and idealism.
These figures are simplified, overlapped, inverted, with a play of positive and negative. Often with a nod to the Italian “Futurists”, Analytical Cubism or Queenslander Ian Fairweather.
While the compositions are contained, we get a sense that the figures continue in either direction much like a detail of a Grecian frieze, the Bayeux Tapestry, or the repetitive sounds of Phillip Glass’ music but in this case it’s figures, repeated and repeated and repeated.
Our bodies are part of our complex modernity, not symbols of predictability or perfection.
Over the last few years I have been working on a series of ink paintings featuring the theme “rock and other heavy burdens”. My aim is to convey the often desperate and clearly dire state of the world but also the unrelenting beauty of all things natural.
I hope to produce weight and volume in my rock subjects, those things which weigh us down or sink us to the bottom. However, the subtle layering of ink and use of repetitive lines has produced a delicacy that lightens their load. While the underlying sentiment is pessimistic, I primarily want the images to celebrate all earthly treasures right down to the bedrock.
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Highlights
- 2 hours
- In-person
Location
Ladder Art Space
4/81 Denmark Street
Kew, VIC 3101
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