Fiona Halse

Friday, March 30, 2018

Primavera Painting installed at ADJ ( Creative Think Space) courtesy of West End Art Space


This painting Primavera was in my solo exhibition Allegory of Spring ( November 2017)
The painting has been installed by West End Art Space at ADJ creatives space. Location: 185 Rosslyn St, West Melbourne, VIC, 3003, Australia More infomation on work, video and details

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

Video:

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)

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Works in the Gallery Space during Colville Gallery exhibition (Stockroom at West End Art Space)

I have a couple of collages on display from West End Art Space's stockroom during 'The Island' Exhibition ( 2 - 24 February 2018)

Colville Gallery brings Corinne Costello, Luke Wagner, Chen Ping, Paul Snell, Ian Parry, Josh Simpson, Stephen Lees, Jerzy Michalski, Effie Pryer and more to West End Art Space

Links to images of the exhibition on Instagram

Abstraction Twenty Eighteen

Involved in Abstraction TwentyEighteen at Langford 120 Gallery (21 April - 20 May, 2018)

Abstraction 2018 is an exhibition with 125 artists across 5 Melbourne galleries. (April - May 2018) .

The exhibition responds to The Field Re-Visited at the National Gallery of Victoria

AbstractionTwentyEighteen at Langford120 has been supported and developed by Wilma Tabacco, Stephen Wickham, IreneBarberis and Factory49 ( Sydney).

Video of exhibition

Galleries involved:
Melbourne Five Walls Projects
(opening Friday, April 27 at 6 - 9 pm)

Justin House Museum

Deakin University Library Galler y

Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
( opening Saturday 28 April, 2-4pm)

Langford 120
( opening Sunday 29 April, 2 - 4pm)

Exhibition Details:
Exhibition: 21 April – 2 May 2018
Opening: 29 April, 2 - 4pm
Location: Langford 120
Address: 120 Langford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, 3051, Australia
Hours: Thursday to Saturday 12 -6pm; Sundays 12 - 5pm
Web: www.langford120.com.au
Email: langford120@gmail.com
Phone: +61 3 9328 8658

Please see other sites for other exhibition details

Artists involved at Langford 120:

Lila Afiouni, Pam Aitken, Irene Barberis, Amarie Bergman, Tim Bass, Elizabeth Bodey, Louise Blyton, Andrew Christofides, Adrian Corke, Tracey Coutts, Peter De Lorenzo, Danica Firulovic, Jennifer Goodman, Fiona Halse, Jan Handel, Jason Haufe, Christopher Heathcote, Wendy Kelly, Robin Kingston, Emma Langridge, Sara Lindsay, Kate Mackay, Stephen McCarthy, Aaron Martin, Anne Mestitz, Suzanne Moss, Lindy Patterson, Jessica Peerless, Anya Pesce, Caroline Philips, Linda Pickering, Susie Leahy, Lisa Sharp, Marlene Sarroff, Wilma Tobacco, Cheryl Thornton, Stephen Wickham , Dale Wither, Dan Wollmering

Langford 120 Invite:

Work to be exhibited:

Image: Ashen, Mixed Media and enamel on MDF wood, 2015, 90cm ( H) x 60cm ( W).

Image/photo credit - Matthew Stanton

Video of exhibition

Other venues/promotion:

Other related exhibitions that align and respond to Field Exhibition at NGV:

Charles Nodrum Gallery - Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968
One of the regular themed group exhibitions presented each year. This ‘Abstraction’ exhibition focuses on the abstract art movements from the 1950s to the present. Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968 is a group exhibition of hard-edge colour-field works to coincide with the re-staging of 1968 The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Exhibition Details:
Exhibition: 26 April - 19 May 2018
Location: Charles Nodrum Gallery
Address: 267 Church Street, Richmond, VIC 3121, Australia
More information

And this! Monochrome: Empty & Full

Featuring: Hayley Millar Baker, David Batchelor, Brian Blanchflower, Louise Blyton, Eugene Carchesio, Mathew Deleget, Christoph Dahlhausen, ADS Donaldson, Craig Easton, Suzie Idiens, Aldo Iaobelli, Raaf Ishak, Noel Ivanoff, Robert Macpherson, Darren Munce, Anne Marie May, Aaron Martin, Junko Matsumoto, Alan Mittleman, April Spencer Napaljarri, Winkie Spencer Napaljarri, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Derek O’Connor, Lenton Parr, Yioryios Papayioryiou, Paul Partos, John Plapp, Steven Rendell, Ayako Saito, David Serisier, Ron Robertson Swann, Michael Staniak, David Thomas.Monochrome: Empty & Full highlights contemporary practices of monochrome painting and sculpture.
Exhibition Details:
Exhibition: 4 May – 2 June 2018
Opening: 3 May 5.30pm
Location: Victorian College of the Arts
Address: Federation Hall, Grant Street, Building 861, Southbank, VIC 3006

More information

Heavy

A group exhibition of new paintings.

Mary Barton, Tom Dunn, Simon Gardam, Harry Hay, Merryn Lloyd, Jiaxin Nong, John Pollard

Exhibition Details:
Exhibition: 28th & 29th April and 5th & 6th May. 11am - 5pm
Opening: Thursday 26 April (6 - 9pm)
Location: Chamber
Address: 19 Church Street, Brunswick VIC 3056
More information
link to an article that relates to Field at NGV and this exhibition

Other relevant information

Sydney Ball is in the 21st Biennale of Sydney

SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement will run from 16 March - 11 June. Curated by Mami Kataoka of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and titled SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement, the Biennale will take place in multiple venues across Sydney.

Sydney Ball - The late Sydney Ball was a pioneer in the field of painting and the development of abstraction in Australia. An influential and prolific artist, Ball’s extensive oeuvre can be divided into distinct series, some focused on figuration and others dedicated to abstraction. Each stylistic evolution represents a significant shift in direction, yet Ball’s captivation with form, colour and light remains evident throughout his practice.

Link to Infomation about Sydney Ball at Sydney Biennale

Link to promotion at Charles Nodrum

Deakin University Art Gallery launches The Centre for Abstract and Non-Objective Art.
The launch coincides with the beginning of The Void. Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art, a new exhibition for 2017 that includes the work of artists Stephen Wickham, Stephen McCarthy, Andrew Christofides and Wilma Tabacco.

More information

Other Australian Abstraction links (this will be revised regularly )

Factory 49

Sydney Non-Objective

Recent Exhibitions - Abstract Art (this will be revised regularly )

Abstraction -Celebrating Australian women abstract artists

Australian Abstraction 1965-1985 from the collection ( Art Gallery of NSW)
Hard edge - NGV

Small selection of Australian Indigenous artists

Rover Thomas

Emily Kam Kngwarray

Sally Gabori

Other links

http://www.minusspace.com/2007/10/frozen-gestures-the-art-of-peter-upward-penrith-regional-gallery-the-lewers-bequest-emu-plains-australia/

You Tube - Jason Haufe

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Allegory of Spring : Fiona Halse ( 1 – 26 November 2017)

Fiona Halse Solo Exhibition at West End Art Space

Allegory of Spring : Fiona Halse

1 November – 26 November 2017

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle – Poetics

Fiona Halse’s first solo exhibition at West End Art Space will showcase a new large abstract painting titled Primavera and smaller collages created in Berlin in 2016. This large painting expands through Tachist marks and textures that move in a linear framework and is contained through white passages of space on the canvas in what Klee refers to as ‘Endotopic’ and ‘Exotopic’ fluidity. Primavera is installed in a small exhibition space. Accompanying Primavera is a series of small collages that highlights not only the difference in scale, but the fertile ground of ideas that was generated during two residencies in Berlin. The works connect as a pod in the space and displays Halse’s need to find structure and feeling through praxis and affective composition.

This exhibition could be considered allegoric on many levels. Forms that are assembled through formal principles and aim to capture visceral feeling can be connected to the concept of allegory, or applied metaphor. In Abstraction, allegory can be communicated through various painterly and pictorial elements and principles with symbolic and hidden meaning. There was a burst of energy in the studio for Halse after the two Berlin residencies which resulted in the creation of Primavera. This burst of energy could be considered as a moment that Heidegger describes as ‘Poiesis’ and aligns with the ‘bringing forth’ process whilst creating an art work. Halse is interested in understanding how drawing and formal principles can be allegorical, metaphoric and poetic and how this can transcribe the unconscious and subconscious. Allegory in its broadest definition can be linked to Abstraction in terms of its spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms.

Halse’s work directly relates to the human figure and forms that convey internal feelings. The Allegory of Spring exhibition relates to personal feelings of elation, freedom and discovery.

Video of exhibition