NEW ALUMNI EXHIBITION 2022 AND GRADUATION SHOW 2021
School of Art and Design, Australian National University
From 9 Dec 2021 through 2022, the works by graduates from 2021 (including me as an undergraduate prior to studying Honours) were viewable online through gradshow.com.au.
During May and June 2022, just over 30 graduates, including me, exhibited some of our graduating works in the
New Alumni Exhibition, ANU School of Art & Design Gallery.
I showed three of my works in the New Alumni Exhibition:
Just Now (Sunrise), Just Now (10:04am) and Just Now (Sunset), last one borrowed from its wonderful new owners.
Scroll down for images of my graduating works. Click on an image for a full view.
As part of the ANU Graduation Show 2021, I was awarded the 2021 Emerging Artist Support Scheme Alliance Française Exhibition Award which enabled me to exhibit works, with selected students in August 2022 in the exhibition "Perseverance", 2-19 August 2022, Alliance Française Canberra, 66 McCaughey Street, Turner, ACT.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Paintings in my Just Now series were inspired by specific moments spent in my home, garden and surrounding bushland, mostly during Covid lockdown periods.
Through hard-edged abstraction, I suggest the built and natural environments but do not directly represent them. I try to capture and convey something I have directly observed or experienced, for example the effect of the sunlight, a mood or emotion, or the changing time of day.
I use bold and engaging colours that attract and sustain attention. In most of the paintings, a stripe motif, repeated at irregular intervals and in uneven configurations, holds and directs that attention. Saturated and desaturated colours combine with different, and sometimes illusionary, geometric shapes to disrupt the picture plane. Shapes form and appear to tilt forward and backward, suggesting both atmospheric and linear perspective at play. These are paintings to wander into, out of and back into again.
