| helengory
galerie 25 st edmonds rd, prahran 3181 Vic
"Synthetic Whispers" 17 july - 10 august 2002 opening night Thursday 18 July at 6pm Ben Jones |
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A group show of 4 artists from 3 states which proudly declares
the sparkle of fresh contemporary artists working loosely with appropriated
imagery.
Ben Jones (Perth) takes imagery from the popular culture of comic books, children's encyclopedias and everyday advertising, painting them seemingly casually on found pieces of metal and other discarded industrial material. Christine Aerfeldt (Adelaide) takes a seemingly romanticized and nostalgic view of the past and of childhood – creating an artificial world where things are superficially ‘nice’, denying the realities hidden below a façade. ie: the folk doll, the typical 60's Aussie girls and the sun-bleached Aussie Bush- 3 disparate elements, somehow find themselves in the same picture. Her style explores dream-like hyper-realities. Aerfeldt evokes a blurred sense of time and consciousness, where the past and present merge and collide, This is expressed by deliberately using a combination of traditional materials; oil paint on canvas, contrasted with contemporary ones such as digital processes. Joan Letcher’s practice revolves around image-making with photocopying and collage in a surreal way that combines the mystery of the objectivity of the solid truth of touch and the more illusive subjectivity of vision. " The work has something to do with the desire to touch the invisible". Gemma Jones's bold, pop portraiture celebrates the female image while revelling in the flatness of paint and accidental abstraction. The works look like silkscreens- however upon second glance one sees the inconsistency of the flat surface texture and the meditative investment of time and touch of the brush and paint. Ones attention is drawn to the surface and the juncture of mass production as opposed to the handmade. Gemma Jones' paintings are on muslin, board, florals…the unexpected surface with imagery that recalls vintage pop-culture; familiar, anonymous and into which everyone can project themselves. |
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| Ben Jones | Christine Aerfeldt | Joan Letcher | Gemma Jones |
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Further Information Contact Director,Helen Gory PH: 03 9525 2808 FX: 03 9525 2633 [email protected] www.helengory.com |
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