Started out tough, but got easy & sweet in the middle & felt good at the end.
The other day John suggested I look at the artist Louise Weaver, this is some of her work.
I think it is lovely, strange and near to my own aesthetics. I'm really enjoying playing with colour at the moment. I ripped open a new packet of pencils and started playing with colour combinations and patterns.
This is weavers bio Louise Weaver is a visual artist and lecturer in painting at RMIT School of Art. She was awarded a BA with distinction RMIT, University1988, and MA, RMIT University 1996. Louise Weaver has produced installations, sculpture, paintings, drawings, prints, multiples, ceramics, glass, photographs, digital and sound work since 1986. She is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
She doesn't seem to have a blog but this is the link to some more of her work at the Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney and some links to reviews of her past exhibitions here and here.
This is part of her artist statement from an exhibition entitled The Killing Moon "In the early days of black and white television one would adjust the contrast frequently for almost any problem effecting viewing pleasure. This activity, combined with banging the side or top of the box, or wiggling the aerial in many positions caused rolling, multiple images, split images, ghosting and a variety of star-like static that could almost be seen as swirling abstract constellations and patterns. This was often accompanied by noisy, sonic hissing, the aural equivalent of visual distortion. As a child I would often spend as much time watching this partial abstraction as the actual programs. My ensemble group of works titled The Killing Moon relates to this experience. Stills from some of my favourite natural history documentaries, and music shows from the ABC TV archive have been simulated and transformed into works on paper.
These works on paper are inspired by the natural world and have been 'adjusted', creating contrast with the real and the imagined, fantasy and fiction entering the realm of scientific techno-fact via television's gaze.
The moment one switches off the set, the slow burn, the fade to black, highlighted by the central circle of light-the 'Killing moon', then darkness."
I'm particularly interested in the idea of the use of the word 'adjusted', to me all of her works have this adjustment, this intervention. This is also my interest, I want to make works in which the real and the imagined collide.
