inka gallery

March 26, 2013

Fractured Landscape is an exhibition of oil paintings by former inka member Susan Parsons. This exhibition will be on display until wednesday April 17, with an opening on friday April 5 at 5.30pm.

FRACTURED LANDSCAPE

While exploring how man’s intervention in the natural environment facilitates change in the culture of the way we live, work and play, I recognise parallels arising when these modifications are considered as metaphor for the choices we make that alter our emotional state and personal relationships with people and place. My project commenced with aerial photographs that provide evidence of farming practice in rural Tasmania. Through digital manipulation of images, the natural environment was replaced by non representational patterns, shapes and lines and eventually resolved in abstract oil paintings that contain elements of aesthetics, emotion and visual stimulation achieved by strategic use of shape and colour. Using geometric abstraction is a deliberate departure from figurative work to facilitate individual interpretation. Because these paintings are two dimensional, I used the techniques of creating multiple layers of pathways and boundaries by using linear perspective inspired by the shapes of windmills, and interspersing areas of high key complementary hues with less saturated colour. The layering effect is enhanced by the inclusion of some semi transparency. Although my paintings evolve from my own ideas, the work is loosely informed by the designs of contemporary artists who work in geometric abstraction.

Images of Susan Parsons' exhibition, Fractured Landscape, at inka gallery until April 17.

Susan's opening is at 5.30pm on April 5 at the gallery, everyone is welcome.