fields

2012

Painted canvas made into delicate and organic shapes is dipped in wax and forms a field of colour across the wall. They are a gentle and feminist interpretation of colour-field painting.

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“a feminist approach to colour-field painting”

  • This work explores the simplicity of the materials of fabric, colour and wax as it shifts across the wall. The objects themselves cast multiple shadows and add a sense of temporariness that sets up a relational dialogue between the object, its shadow and the White Modernist Wall. It explores craft, the domestic, the pictorial, and the object being made present through lighting and repetition.

  • Pieces of canvas are painted with acrylic paint, sewn into vessel shapes then dipped in white and clear wax. The wax solidies the fibres in place and gives the canvas a subtle transparency. The multitude of pieces are meant to create a field and a feminist pun on the nature of colour field painting.

    Dimensions: each piece is approximately 10cm X 5cm X 5cm.

    Materials: Canvas, acrylic paint, wax, threads, sewing pins.

  • 2012 “Changing Threads” National Juried Fabric Arts Exhibition. The Refinery Artspace, Nelson, New Zealand

  • • Fl-Uttering • Imaginings •