FINDING MY LANGUAGE



This 2011 show was based on work I made during 2010 and 2011, ‘finding my language’       

I am a landslide waiting to fall
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm
SOLD


Anni Albers (1899-1994), a German-American textile artist and printmaker, wrote in 1982 about choice of materials:

“Something speaks to us, a sound, a touch, hardness or softness, it catches us and asks to be formed. We are finding our language, and as we go along we learn to obey their rules and their limits… the more subtly we are tuned to our medium, the more inventive our actions will become. Not listening to it ends in failure … material is a means of communication. The listening to it, not dominating it, makes us truly active, that is: to be active, be passive. The finer tuned we are to it, the closer we come to art.”

My art centres on drawing, and branches out into print, stitch and collage. Materials have different inherent qualities which govern where my ideas take me as I try to do as Albers suggests and listen to what they tell me. I deal with uncertainty, and build upon an idea, or words from songs that I listen to as I work. These inspire me.


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Are you the one that I’ve been waiting for?
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm
NZ$ 1450, framed


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It seemed like a good idea at the time
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm
NZ$ 1450, framed

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If I ruled the world
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm
NZ$ 1450, framed

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With hope in your hands
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 760mm x 560mm
SOLD

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In the ink of the night
Monoprint, water-based ink & graphite; image 560mm x 455mm
SOLD

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Suddenly night time has begun
Monoprint, water- and oil-based inks; image 1015mm x 490mm
NZ$ 950, unframed

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I will always be there
Monoprint, water- and oil-based inks; image 900mm x 665mm
SOLD