projects

 

 

my ongoing textile paintings project

 

 

In the project, I am attempting to expand the textile plane of the paintings using pre-loom hand crafted technology- including knotting, twining and binding. In building these works, I’m simultaneously developing and expanding new relationships between the contextual possibilities of the inherent languages contained in thread and the construction techniques.

 

The result is a transformation that stirs up associations while resisting any reductive reading.

 

 

             

 

 

                     northstar

 

 

northstar, 2024

acrylic paint, cotton and linen hardwood frame

56 x 56 cm

 

 

                            northstar detail

 

 

northstar, 2024 detail

acrylic paint, cotton and linen hardwood frame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          skywalk

 

 

 

skywalk, 2024

acrylic paint, cotton and linen hardwood frame

109 x 109 cm

 

 

skywalk is from an ongoing painting project that investigates the materiality of painting while considering connections I’ve observed in the urban landscape between natural forms, architecture and public space. In seeking to express the process of transforming the humble materials, the relationships observed in the landscape unite as structures to reflect light and defend the grid using order and repeated patterns.

 

The work encourages close inspection and contemplation of landscape in its complex, subtle, multi-layered open surface.

 

Exhibited in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery

 

 

 

 

              skywalk side view

 

             

 

skywalk, 2024 side view

acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton and linen hardwood frame

109 x 109 cm

 

 

 

                    skywalk detail

 

 

skywalk, 2024 detail

acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton and linen hardwood frame

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        glimmer, 2022

 

 

 
 

glimmer, 2022 

acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton cord

96.5 x 76.5 cm

 
 
 

This work is an investigation into building a painting by separating the surface plane of cotton and paint.

 

The complex surface is built using cotton knotted into particular knots, which are painted to capture silvery light, and there is a shadow cast behind the work. There is a taut tension that is expressed across the surface, contrasting with the cast shadow, and line and form modify each other activating the site within the work.
 
 
The relationship between means of production and the support is revealed, which has always been an important element in my work. Line and form modify each other activating the site within the work, rewarding a slow intimate study of the relationships.

 

 

   

 

                     

 

 

 

 

glimmer, 2022 verso detail

acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton cord

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       shimmer

 

 

 

shimmer, 2022

hand woven, hand knotted and bound cord

84 x 104 cm

 

 

shimmer is a work that relates to my experience of mapping a landscape I viewed when on a train from Paris to Amsterdam. In the map, I included details I observed travelling from the built environment to rural fields filled with luminous pink tulips. I felt compelled to respond to the shift between the forms and the rhythms I experienced. There's a translation between isolating the details of the experience which activates the abstraction and the process of the physical construction of the textile.

 

There is a pattern to the structure and texture in the unique and interlocking method which is complex. Built instinctively using many different stitches, the form developed, due to a constant dialogue between myself and the material that changed every day. The taut tension increased, expressed across the surface of the textile contrasting with the cast shadows.

 

Over the many months of making this work, the act of production became a distilled meditation that connected the woven grid and a new experience of the intense memory of landscape.

 

 

           shimmer detail

 

 

shimmer, 2022 detail

hand woven, hand knotted and bound cord

 

 

 

 

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