Cassandra Laing’s work explores the spiritual dimensions of the seen world. Her style draws on a number of pictorial traditions, from realism to surrealism, to deliver powerfully arresting images.
The works in this forthcoming exhibition are large pastels on paper. Rendered with an almost photographic fidelity they conjure images of icebergs collapsing into the sea or jellyfish floating in its dark depths.
"The works function as bodhisattva-like images. The giant jellyfish forms are bio-luminous and photo-phorescent, both light generating and life-giving.
The collapsing glacier faces are representative of moments of disintegration of self; of reincarnation and
becoming." Cassandra Laing, 2005
Themes seen in earlier exhibitions of the effects of light and the transparency of ice develop into mesmerizing images about physical suspension and spiritual transcendence. Cassandra Laing’s work depicts the world at the limits of the real.
Cassandra Laing has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and is well represented in both private and public collections.
Please contact the gallery for more information or to preview works.
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