Saturday, December 31, 2016

Fiona Halse Solo Exhibition at Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery ( 8 – 25 February 2017)


 

Fiona Halse’s series of large abstract paintings are concerned with the visceral. The marks and structure within Halse’s work derive from the architectonic and relates to the human figure’s internal feeling. These works are linked with Tachist and Lyrical Abstraction traditions and intuitive, lateral approaches to picture making are embraced. Her work values drawing, formalism and affective composition, but she also seeks to capture passages in space where the subconscious and unconscious can be transcribed. Halse has an interest in metaphoric form and how this can be transferred through the hand, materials and through praxis and this is evident in the texture and mark making in her work.  Abstraction to Halse is an idealised state, and form can be a summarised essence that is stripped and re-discovered.

 

These large paintings connect with the viewer physically and forms replicate structures that evoke the sense of a human body and there is an offering to the viewer to enter through virtual pictorial space.  But often spaces become closed, passages vague, dense, and saturated with colour. Halse’s space is private and ambiguous.  A series of black paintings preceded the works in this exhibition and there are still traces of scaffold, black marks and spaces that have been found, moved, erased and re-discovered. 

 

Whilst there are several large paintings on exhibition, there will also be a selection of small works on paper and collages created in two arts residencies in Berlin.

 

Exhibition Details:

Exhibition: 8 - 25 February 2017

Location: Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery

Address: Level 8, Room 16, Nicholas Building 37, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia

Hours:. Wednesday - Friday: 1pm - 5pm; Saturday: 11am - 5pm

Opening: Saturday 11 February, 2pm -5pm

Web: www.stephenmclaughlangallery.com.au

Email: st73599@bigpond.net.au

Phone: 0407 317 323 
      

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