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gallery 1

deane sobey

mind maps

Deane Sobey’s images are a constellation of fragments of the artist’s life.  Using ink, acrylic and pen, Sobey records and documents everyday moments, events, and thoughts.

Employing automatic and observational drawing techniques that connect with mood, memory and the unconscious, Sobey’s images indicate slippages between the artist’s absolute experience and his response to that experience.

“Documenting my experience is important to me because it freezes fragments of my thoughts and feelings that only last a few minutes.  Working this way allows me to then contemplate the outcome for an infinite period of time.”

Sobey integrates painting with drawing, and figuration with abstraction.  His mark making is intended to portray certain feelings or thoughts.  The work is therefore quite personal, depicting the artist’s own views of the world around him.

The combination of colour and unnatural scale has produced an unusual body of work that is intriguing, poetic and sometimes playful.  The viewer can construct his/her own narrative, but the images are also a window into the artist’s mind.

gallery 2

michelle giblett

sweet

Michelle Giblett's recent paintings offer a highly charged view into both
an imagined and lived in world. 

The lyrical intensity of Giblett's work flows on in large, multi-panelled
paintings provoking the viewer with colliding images derived from religion
and the erotic. 

Although the work is multi-panelled to create an entire vision, the work
is stylistically dislocated, comprising a variety of styles which adds to the sense of collision and clashing.

Giblett's extreme use of colour relates to her continuing interest in the
relationships between reality and the media.


 

gallery 3

sandra muratti

kir larwill

 kir larwill

        sandra muratti     

The quietness of an empty bowl sits beside the desire held within a still body. Both are naked. Both are momentarily static in a layered and moving background.  

What happens in the moments of a person, and what happens in the moments of a day?  A sense of time, and place, are equally important to these two artists.   Both artists approach their work with passion and sensibility and in doing so question what happens in the space between longing and fulfillment.

Larwill’s vessels are quiet but not passive.  At rest, these everyday objects become part of the ‘shape of a day’.  Muratti’s figures suggest desire and longing… her small scale wood blocks are moments in time, tied together in small narratives.

Sandra Muratti

I am so impressed when I see a face.  It holds a sense of all the places it has been and I hope that, as it goes by, it imparts a little of its journey to me.  People always appear spectactular – a fantastic head of hair, flailing fingers, or sensual posture, a secret.  An when I sit with someone, I maintain a good ear so that the whispered gestures that usually get away are caught and suspended in a disquieting ambiguity – space that shifts and moves through and around them like water.  There is always a journey, always a story, a raw confrontation with the self.

Kir Larwill

The work I have made for this show is about the shape of a day.  The way the day moves from one moment to the next, and how each of these moments differ, or are repeated.  Also about the way that a day takes on its own shape, regardless of plans or lists or routines.