Gallery One
Friday 7 – Saturday 22 July
Lorna Grear
Weave
Opening Friday 7 July 6-8pm
Artist Talks: Saturday 22 July 3-5pm
WEAVE represents my new body of work. I use the space of landscape as a starting point for abstractions. The finished works inevitably evolve into images beyond landscape, signifying personal, emotional or social events. I can’t ignore that landscape offers me a rhythmic structure where I can play within the imaginative constructs of painting; colour, form, line, texture and pattern give me so many possibilities to create different compositions. The narrative is not obvious; I like to think of the paintings as thoughts or feelings.
Uncanny, random or specific references do enter the works. After the musician Prince died, I made many purple works with a haphazard rhythm. When Donald Trump was elected I made a work entitled Trump’s Bloodshed – with a grand old oak splitting the composition in two. Sometimes the trigger is public other times the impulse to make the work is unknown, it could be based in human identity.
Recently I’ve been listening to John Coltrane. In his music there’s an expression of feeling and meaning that implies rather than tells. The odd note there, a beat here, the fluid rhythm staggered by a loud vibration…
I’m always searching for that pivotal moment in painting where the structure balances the rhythm and where the feeling and the composition weave together.
© Lorna Grear June 2017
Biography
Lorna Grear is a Sydney based artist who uses paintings, collages and sculptural relief works to emphasise ideas of process, order and the painterly sensation. Recently her abstract work involves convoluted patterns and structures that signify contemporary virtual and real environments or states of the mind. Most of the time the works respond to current affairs, personal travel or emotional experiences that influence or inspire the need for Lorna to respond with a visual work.
This latest body of work exist as digital prints, paintings and drawings. The digital works start from hand drawings of her surroundings then manipulated digitally; sometimes they are seen as wallpapers- other times they hang individually as large paper works.
The paintings stem from the hand-made drawings, and the digital prints both of which work as sketches for the paintings. It’s a master painting relationship.
Lorna has held numerous solo exhibitions including at the infamous Tailor Room Gallery, Sydney in 1998 – 2003, Peloton Gallery in 2005, 2009, 2011 and MOP Projects in 2013. Her recent solo show is held at Airspace Projects, Marrickville, July 2017. Her work has been shown at; Imperial Slacks, Herringbone, SNO, Phatspace, Zitlip, Sheffer Gallery, UTS Gallery
Image Above: Lorna Grear, Big Foot Monsters, 2017, hand drawn ink digitally manipulated, 60 x 60cm. Image courtesy of the artist
Selection of Works
Pink Thing, 2017, acrylic on canvas 30 x430cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
$500
AirSpace Projects 2014-2017 