'Indefinite' Exhibition

Toi Gallery
Pātaka Art + Museum
Porirua City

December 2020 - January 2021

I began work on the pieces in this exhibition during the first Covid lockdown in 2020 - I spent a lot of time at home this year, and it took me a while to realise that the colours of my surroundings have sneaked into the paintings. There is the purple of the cat blanket, the colour of the pole outside my front door, the tiles in the kitchen, colour from the bedroom, and colours from my garden and the bush surrounding our house. As time evolved and the scale of the paintings increased they became more ‘fractured’ and more indefinite. There was also more emphasis on texture and depth of colour, but always with the same precision that I innately crave in my work - a sense of order even when things don’t quite seem clear.

Several of these paintings share the same outer shape, sometimes rotated or flipped, sometimes at very different scales. I enjoy imposing on myself the challenge of making sense of a shape to imply very different (usually impossible) three dimensional forms within the outer footprint.

The title ‘Indefinite’ is descriptive of both the ambiguous forms implied by these paintings and the strange time in which we currently find ourselves.

You can read more about each painting and see more detailed images by clicking on the painting titles below.