Solo exhibition at Factory 49, Sydney, Australia ( 19 -28 July 2018)

Short summary 

Halse’s four large abstract paintings unravel within Factory 49’s industrial space and reconfigure in sequence from illusionist space to flat suspension. The changes in the space across the four works are traced through haptic passages and kinesthetic energy within the painterly surface of the work - beginning from the ‘Rite of Spring’ to the three 'IAM' paintings. These paintings relate to essential feeling and are connected to a personal space, but they also relate directly to the architectonic scaffolded space of Factory 49. 

Media release

'Genesis as formal movement is the essence of the work of art. In the beginning the motif, the harnessing of energy, sperm. Work as form-making in the material sense; primordial feminine. Work as form-deciding sperm: primordial masculine'.

Klee, Notebook volume 1 , The Thinking Eye, 1956, page 17

Fiona Halse’s four large painterly abstract works transition in genesis, unravelling within Factory 49’s industrial space.  There is a sense that these paintings come into being and the colours in the ‘Rite of Spring’ dissipate into suspended planes that become upright, frontal with passages that are flattened and contrasted with forms that are psychodynamic and kinesthetic. There is also an increase in black in the ‘IAM’ paintings and an emphasis on the pillar and architectonic forms that create rhythm and are schematically discovered.

Halse’s abstract work originates from a need to capture a generalised essence that relates to a personal space. A sense of humanity can be excavated through Klee’s ‘Endotopic’  and  ‘Exotopic’ understanding of space or connecting with  Giacometti’s dissolving scaffolded skeleton forms that Satre describes as ‘halfway between nothingness and being’.

Halse harvests essential abstract forms through affective responses and haptic connections to materials. Her approach is Tachist, but her value of drawing principles, plasticity and formalism create an underlying structure to her work. The four paintings connect to the architectonic construction of the industrial space, but the work also seeks to unearth visceral feeling.

Fiona Halse has had six solo exhibitions since graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at Monash University in 1996. But this solo exhibition will be Fiona Halse’s first solo show in Sydney.

Fiona Halse will be onsite at the gallery on Thursday 19 July 2018 (1-6pm)

Exhibition Details:
Exhibition: 19 - 28 July 2018
Opening: Wednesday 18 July, 6-8pm
Location:  Factory 49, 49 Shepherd Street, Marrickville, NSW, 2204, Australia
Hours: Thursday - Saturday: 1 - 6pm
Web:www.factory49blogspot.com
Email:factory49@optusnet.com
Phone:+61 02 9572 9863

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Images:

Installation image: left to right -IAM #1, 2017,IAM #2, 2018, (photo taken by Glenn Locklee)

Installation image:left to right, Rite of Spring, IAM #1, IAM #2, IAM #3,  (photo taken by Glenn Locklee)

Rite of Spring, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 170cm H x 205cmW (photo taken by Matthew Stanton)

IAM #1, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 170cm H x 205cmW (photo taken by Matthew Stanton)

IAM # 2, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 170cm H x 205cmW (photo taken by Matthew Stanton)

IAM # 3, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 170cm H x 205cmW (photo taken by Matthew Stanton)

Installation image:IAM # 3, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 170cm H x 205cmW  (photo taken by Molly L Wagner)

Installation image: Rite of Spring, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 170cm H x 205cmW  (photo taken by Molly L Wagner)

Installation image: left to right, Rite of Spring, IAM #1, IAM #2, IAM #3,(photo taken by Fiona Halse)

Installation image: left to right, IAM #2, IAM #3,(photo taken by Fiona Halse)

Installation image: left to right, IAM #3, Rite of Spring,(photo taken by Fiona Halse)