TEMPERED RESOLUTION
Solo exhibition
24 Aug - 3rd Sept 2022
Curatorial and Co, Studio 1/175 Cleveland street, Redfern, NSW, Australia.
Thinking about how nature creates colours in a myriad of ways, at unexpected times, and in the most unusual places, I stumbled across the heat treatment of metals, and my curiosity got the better of me.
A playful approach, experimenting with tempering mild steel ensued. The results where what I expected in terms of colour, but It was interesting to notice the shapes and gradients that emerged, and this became more of a focus than the colour results themselves.
I used these forms as tonal studies and compositional ideas to build images from using both digital methods and painting techniques.
This body of work is a combination of these methods, yet the framing presents them both in the same way, forming part of my ‘Refraction painting’ series ‘Tempered resolution’ was intended to explore the more subtle and unexpected colour results that come from nature, while also expressing the drama and dynamic appearance of natural elements, under extreme pressure.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an album of musical compositions intended to reflect the mood of this theme. To enhance the experience of the exhibition by removing you from outside distractions, creating specific harmonies, and sounds that relate to ideas of alchemic change, and the power of nature to create beauty and destruction. This range, reflects the chaos and calm in contemporary life, and the effects of heat on our changing climate, are an impossible parallel to ignore, when thinking about this theme.
The current state of the world is overwhelming, and perhaps it always has been, in different ways for various generations. ‘Tempered resolution’ is a response to these pressures, and the concept of human survival, on a warming planet, in the digital age.
Technology is becoming rapidly embroiled with biology and human habit. Our need for a considered and a compassionate relationship with nature, is more urgent than ever. ‘Tempered resolution’ reflects on this idea, while aiming to evoke a range of moods that speak to both the calm, and dramatic aspects of our changing environment.
It’s a meditation on the alchemy of change.
Below: Exhibition soundtrack