Some Positions in Space & Time
Chambers Art Gallery, Christchurch
June/July 2024
Acrylic on 640gsm Fabriano, mounted on panel, Framed, 715 x 905 x 70mm
Acrylic on 640gsm Fabriano, mounted on panel, Framed, 500 x 410 x 70mm
Acrylic on 640gsm Fabriano, mounted on panel, Framed, 500 x 410 x 70mm
Acrylic on 640gsm Fabriano, mounted on panel, Framed, 500 x 410 x 70mm
Acrylic on 640gsm Fabriano, mounted on panel, Framed, 500 x 410 x 70mm
experience with typographic forms aligned with specific locations; street
names and neighbourhoods. I pull analogue and digital source images apart and segment them into light and dark.
Drawn with a knife, hand-cut stencils made from meticulous tracings of these forms come together in layers, communicating a place name lost in time. Applied with a squeegee, semi-transparent films of metallic colours complicate the figure ground relationships.
Man-made forms assert themselves over the pictorial space just as a street cuts a concrete path through what was once a sand dune. The toponymy applied to an area, its place name, becomes synonymous with that area. The trace of histories associated with it recede into invisibility.