Exhibition and Install plans

Some points and notes from the meeting.

-Material Contrast
-Revisiting / Time – Analogy of time through the works
-Different visual approaches / light in time – play through installation
-Temporal moments
-Different aspects
-Exploration of the moments (in paint and areas)
-Illusion – Methodology to make space
-The fleeting moment
-Eludes to space
-Install ideas in relation to location

Milli Jannides at Costal signs:

Thinking through colour, brush mark moments and application to paint, ways in which figures and images are expressed, how much information is being displayed.

Richard Bryant at Ivan Anthony:

Colour exploration of flat colour and focus on paint through colour / pigment.
Solid fill colour, interruption of contrast. Lights play off of different applications of paint and medium and how it can play. Shinny paint. Simple forms, scale of works.


Laura Owens Book:

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Discussions of the idea of edges, canvas, Textiles materials wrapping of the canvas, approaches to styles of painting, obstacles, road signs, arrows weaving. Discussions of boundaries to paintings and rules almost in order to get to a finish each painting is a new set of rules and instructions.

In relation to the “escape” of painting Laura Owens writes:
“I feel like it’s an awkward colliding with yourself and the present moment.  All your dissatisfactions with yourself come up one by one and you have to let them pass by, and then you are aware of yourself painting almost to much, and then at some point you let that go… When it’s going really well you feel sort of insane. you don’t relate to everything…. [to] all your friends [or to] the world in the same way, somehow everything else seems rather unreal and the painting seems real.”

Anselm Kiefer – Sydney:

Cement like physicality to the work, stick out, object oriented work, form, structure, constructed forms, installation, scale, size, texture, volume, weight, colour or lack there of.

“I work with symbols which link our consciousness with the past. The symbols create a kind of simultaneous continuity and we recollect our origins.”

Ned Kelly Paintings:

Colour, form, figure, landscape, play of shape and formal aspects.

The painting is of Ned Kelly, I didn’t know who that was.
Fast forward to a couple weeks after that meeting and I watch this Australian film about this gang ‘Kelly gang’ slow film didn’t know what it really was about couple of people in what seemed to be the outback of Australia.

Happens that that painting is based off of the same person that the films true story is off and I just realised now after realising that the names are the same and the landscape was the thing which made me go “I’ve seen that” and that’s what the paintings highlight, the landscape, but through simple techniques and really flat light, highlighting the landscape with out depicting it perfectly.

What surprised me was becoming aware to this painting while simultaneously having had stumbled upon a film called True History of the Kelly Gang (2020) where Ned Kelly is played by actor George Mackay, I didn’t know that this Ned Kelly was the same as portrayed. This telling of story in the film discovers Ned Kelly through his life in and around as the Kelly Gang in Australia. This painting Ned Kelly (1946) plays off of the kelly gang landscape, almost honing on to the surroundings of Australia, the flat bush lands and flats. Ned Kelly’s figure is abstracted, his ‘knights armour’ is blacked out into simple shapes and forms shadowed in black focusing on simple forms.