Small Studies

CURRENT EXHIBITION:

Clare Purser, Robyn Gibson | Small Studies

7th - 24th September 2010

Opening: Tues 7th September, 5.30 – 7pm

Clare Purser finds inspiration in the letters and postcards sent ‘home’ in colonial times to friends and family.   Like aged snapshots of another time, the rugged texture of the surface and the ambiguous forms combine to evoke a mood of isolation and mystery.
Painted onto salvaged native wood panels, these small postcard-like paintings offer glimpses of a raw and primal landscape.

Robyn Gibson's work is uncanny; strange flirtations take place with the viewer in these small noir portrait paintings. The solo subjects are positioned awkwardly within the canvas, as though their peculiar physicality represents the metaphysical constraints placed on them.

There is also a suggestion of illusion; hidden elements inhabit the dark corners where lingering traces of adversity lie among life's affirmations.

The paintings are in oil, applied assiduously with technical know-how and dexterity; their texture, depth and darkness resonate with Robyn’s interest in the metaphysical aspect of human nature