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18 July - 5 August @ Watt Space


SIX SOLO SHOWS

 

Dr. Anne-Maree Hunter, Artist and Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, will open the shows on Thursday 19 July at 6.30pm.

 

The Loading Dock

Fluidity

SOPHIE MUNNS

painting and works on paper

This body of work evolved out of a literal re-immersion in the sublime beauty of the coastline on relocation to Newcastle after years away from such an environment. Initial photographs, drawings and watercolours of ocean, sky, open vistas, ocean baths became abstracted reveries on water and its many qualities. Underwater observations of light, colour and movement at the ocean baths were translated onto paper and canvas, pondering sensations of consistently shifting and changing water framed by the geometry of the baths. Ruminating on the poetics and symbolic associations of this fluidity resulted in this series of works.Sophie Munns

 

 

     

L-R The everflowing present tense (detail) mixed media on paper; Cyclorama (detail) acrylic on canvas; Foliage and roots (detail) mixed media on paper

 

 

 

The Locker Room

“…”

TARYN RAFFAN

2D and 3D

Would you listen if I was to speak… speak indepthly… speak philosophically…speak realistically… about what I see? Would you care? Would it bother you if you knew nothing about what I had to say ?  Would you still listen would you listen … really listen ?
Taryn Raffan

     

L-R Traces (detail) etching and monoprint on stonehenge paper; Layers (detail) digital print on stonehenge; Traces (detail) charcoal, etching, lithography and monoprint on stonehenge paper

 

 

 

 

The Pit

Chinese Whispers

CAELLI JO BROOKER

2D

The experience of travelling in another culture can be like playing Chinese whispers… generating a hushed phrase that takes on a life of its own, becoming something unlike what you may have intended… or existing only as an impression. These works stem from a 2006 stay in China and are an exploration of the impressions gained from the journey. Caelli Jo Brooker

 

 

 

 

 

L-R lotus garden (detail) oil and acrylic on board; green tea for three (detail) oil and acrylic on board; 8 treasures tea (detail) oil and acrylic on board

 

 

 

 

 The Long Room

Looking up…in Newcastle

ANDREA BRUNO

painting and printmaking

From our lowly point of view…what is the point of looking down? The surface of the ground seems so closer, so hard, so limiting… Directing our gaze to heaven… hope and love are infinite. Andrea Bruno

 

     

The Annunciation, from El Santo Rosario series oil on glass; XIII station from  Via Crucis series drypoint; The Wedding at Cana, from El Santa Rosario series oil on glass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Hoist

Safe Space

ANNETTA LUSPINNER

installation

Safe Space… What Is Art Therapy? What does art therapy mean - for the client, the practitioner, contemporary Australia ?  How does it work, feel, fit ? What could it look like in book form ? Annetta Luspinner

 

 

     

 

L-R Provisions for the journey (detail) hand-made palm fibre paper, sheep's wool, thread, sand, artist's supplies; Step by step (detail) handmade kozo paper, ghost etching prints, assorted fabrics, ribbon, cardboard; I can do this (detail) hand-made linen paper, monoprints, lino and ghost lino prints, raffia, ribbon

 

 

 

 

 

The Media Space

Space

REBECCA HOLMES

light installation

This is a space for you. In entering it, you become the artist. Rebecca Holmes

 

     

 

L- R all images details of installation-interrupted light, uninterrupted light, view of light boxes