The Beginning Of Everything: Remembering Distance Oil on linen 90 x 180 cm
Untethering landscape...what do I mean by this? Well, in this age where astronomers are finding new planets and other celestial bodies/phenomena, and scientists who delve into nanoworlds are discovering equally as amazing phenomena, tethering 'landscape' to images bound to Earth is pretty prosaic! We live in a world where the reaches of distance are phenomenally expansive in their vastness, whether it be into the infinity of outer space or into the seemingly ever increasing spaces of the nano/pico. And, as regular readers will know, I 'see' these distances mirrored in the vast intimacies of the human psyche. I like the paradox suggested by vast intimacies! It helps to turn things upside down and inside out!
So, landscape tethered to images of what we literally see may seem a little unadventurous! For me, landscape goes way beyond what I might see with my eye of eye ball and pupil. In a way, what we literally see, places us outside the landscape where we are observers, rather than participants or even better, resonances of the same star dust. Landscapes that search for and become the distances, whether close or far, of those elements beyond what we literally see reveal the resonances of the star or cosmic dust that is in everything.
Landscape painting or rendering [with any medium] has a capacity to remind us that we are intrinsically part of the landscape, part of the memory of life's first flutter, part of the compulsion of existence. If we see and feel this we'll understand the need to nurture our physical, emotional and spiritual environments in ways which embrace the connectivity of all across time and space. The landscpapes that spring to my mind when I think like this are certainly adventurous! They are not mere representations or copies of what's literally there. Instead they propel horizons, tease perspective, collapse difference, search inside imagination for cellular memories of the beginning of everything. All existence is paradise!
Cosmic Dust Oil on linen 120 x160 cm
This painting is in my current exhibition PARADISE [Details below]
Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize
My painting The Beginning Of Everything: Remembering Distance Oil on linen 90 x 180 cm [Above] is in the exhibition. Here's the post I wrote at the time of painting it. http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2010/11/beginning-of-everything.html
Paradise Oil on linen 62 x 82 cm
MY CURRENT EXHIBITION
PARADISE
@ Purgatory Artspace
170 Abbotsford St
North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
61 3 9329 1860
Exhibition Dates: 8 September - 8 October
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 5 pm
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AND Please come to:
MY ARTIST'S TALK
KATHRYN BRIMBLECOMBE-FOX
IN DISCUSSION WITH ART HISTORIAN
Dr. CHRISTINE DAUBER
Saturday 24 September
2-3pm
@ PARADISE
Purgatory Artspace
Light refreshments afterwards
Not so much concerned with the entertainment value attributed to popular culture, this artist’s work grapples with the ideological issues which haunt global politics today and seeks to express bonds of commonality rather than the disparateness of race, religion or politics. To this end, her images utilize an iconographical language that is global in its dimension. Her thematic use of arboreal imagery provides a point of access which crosses both histories and cultures to collapse the difference between east and west.
Christine Dauber Ph D. (Dean's Honours) MA, BA Honours (Art History) University of Queensland
Christine Dauber Ph D. (Dean's Honours) MA, BA Honours (Art History) University of Queensland
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Please check out Carolyn McDowall's article about PARADISE
http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/paradise-in-purgatory-kathryn-brimblecombe-fox-finding-light
AND
Kathryn
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