Points of Departure

My art practice is an exploration of trajectories which will start with a point of departure where I was testing out various territories and finding a points of connections. These points of connection will be exploring these territories to find trajectories which project a successful on-going art practice. To keep an ongoing art practice I need to be critically engaged in exploration and finding potential to keep extending, connecting, deepening and opening out these points of departure.

I had previously been focusing on colour and energy after exploring colour as a final brief in 2012.

Playing with colour I wanted to create a conversation to the viewer as 'colour as an event', using a selective field of colour, primarily only one colour and potential various tones. This creating an interesting conversation to how powerful and overwhelming this colour sensation becomes, over establishing any dialogue of field or composition.

I played with extremity’s of both scale and surface as an overwhelming sensation. I played with the materiality conventions such as lean over fat rather than convention of fat over lean to create an organic sensation of the surface displayed to the viewer. This created an interesting play on the viewers sensation of scale to become close and intimate with the work to see and experience these organic fields and to step away from the work and feel the overwhelming gestural scale of the work.