Still Life: Local Approaches
WHEN | 17 JULY TO 11 AUGUST
WHERE | RESIDENTS GALLERY
OPENING NIGHT | FRIDAY 19 JULY, 5 TO 7 PM
Jane-Frances Tannock, Carolyn Davis, Lisa Banks and Jim Moody all live locally and met while studying Still Life painting with David Moore at Montsalvat over 8 years ago. They have remained friends since this time and regularly paint the figure together at Hawthorn Artist Society.
They are all interested in a range of genres, however, always return to still life regularly and this body of work is a snap shot of their current interests and explorations:
Jane-Frances Tannock’s paintings are compositions of randomly assembled household objects chosen to allow her to study and render perceptions of hardness and softness, transparency and opaqueness, crevices and recesses and the balancing of objects.
Carolyn Davis chooses simple arrangements of objects which allow for a deeper exploration of the complexities of colour, value and volume in space. This quiet contemplation of still life promotes the discovery of elusive qualities, that transfuse into a delicate measure of those objects seen.
Lisa Banks’ paintings explore mood, light and space through the motifs of Martin Boyd ramekins and liquorice allsorts. Drawing on gouache sketches and collage, these works explore the intersection between figuration and abstraction, and space and pattern. The placement in the picture frame allows the objects to engage in a playful dialogue.
Jim Moody paints familiar domestic objects, rendering them mildly metaphysical. Odd constructed shapes with whimsical coloured surfaces that evoke a quiet meditative monumentality. Simple paintings created from quiet observation that invite you to contemplate their visual analogy.
For any enquires please email: exhibition@montsalvat.com.au
