Art Statement
Small Beginnings / Transition Exhibition
In the exhibition Transition I am exploring the meaning and flow of regeneration inspired by bush fires and its process of life’s reconstruction.
Using different medias such as actual fire, charcoal collected from the bush as well as linocuts and photography, I have created sub-series and mini narratives that display life’s usual dichotomies and issues. Death verses life is specifically explored on the linocut prints through the process of a landscape’s transformation and restoration. The works with charcoal reflect resilience and adaptability throughout adversity and hardship. Discomfort and burnout are represented on the burnt paper art works together with warmth and offering. Finally, surrender and the end of affliction, symbolised on the photographs that evoke hope and life throughout the power of small new beginnings.
Experimentation has been a great part of this body of work and artists like William Kentridge and his passion for charcoal and Margaret Preston and her landscape woodblock prints have particularly inspired me.
The ultimate purpose of this exhibition is to peel deeper layers, connect physical with emotion and spirit, metaphorically merging nature and humanity’ skins.