20 Years of Art

Last year went by in a blink and I hadn’t one moment to make one single piece of art. I have been completing my psychology and clinical neuroscience training and I finally became a fully registered Psychologist in May. I thought to myself, what a great time this would be to dig up old stuff.

It was the 20 year Anniversary for this one, and so I thought, what a great time this would be to have another look. It also happened to be, 20 years of never having been able to afford an art canvas. I could only laugh.

Red and Gold Woman, 2002

Well, whatever the case, I guess that comes with a territory for Artists.

Et voilà - Here it is. 20 years old.

~ * ° R e c o n c i l i a t i o n ° * ~

This week I made a series of artworks to commemorate National Reconciliation Week 2020 in Australia.

There was a call out for art entries on the theme ‘In This Together’ at the University of Melbourne to honour the occasion. I was very happy for the opportunity to contribute to this initiative.

Here is my entry:

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‘One’

May 2020, Melbourne

“This is one piece from a series I have made to commemorate National Reconciliation Week 2020. It is recycled art from an aquatint I made in 2010. I was inspired by the Dreamtime and the visual musical language of circles and dot art as a traditional Aboriginal expression of spirit and country, water and the land. Many layers communicate the many steps that have been taken by the community together. I wanted to convey intricate interweaving colours overlapping and revealing through one another, like a night sky that also became the morning sky when seen from its inverted angle.

This piece may be viewed and displayed from all sides.”

Selected works will be announced mid-May and a public display with a virtual gallery launched in June.

Link to the virtual display here.

[28/05/2020]

Art Show 'Digitas' Opening night — M16 Artspace

You’re Invited !

I’ll be in Canberra for the opening night of my art show, ‘Digitas’ at the M16 .

The invitation is open and everyone is welcome — the more the merrier!

I’ve been working with the talented minds of curator Frances Spurgin and science illustrator Russell Kightley to get the show up and running. I will also be opening a sales page for prints on my website on the same day, with links to the works on display, for those who aren’t in the area.

Meet with other artists and interesting people in the community too.

And, there will be food and drinks.

Hope to see you there!

K

Isomorphics

I'm currently working on a series of artworks, on a broad Topic of Isomorphism. Especially, I am interested in how we spatially process different combinations, rotations and representations of equivalent content — spatially, and also semantically.  Here's a preview of some pieces, still in progress, which I will be exhibiting as part of a display of works in 2019.

New Art with Harmonograph Oscillations

For those who were unaware, the local Canberra Science Centre has a state of the art Harmonograph that is open for supervised access. It's a platform that creates a beautiful pattern of intertia against the friction of the pen onto a paper when pushed, ostensibly creating a much more complex version of what you might have seen from your Spirograph stencil kit as a kid! Here's a link describing how it works.

I've been teaming up with the friendly staff at Questacon to create a series of patterns containing perceptual constancy illusions and the 'McCollough effect' color illusion - and there's certainly an art to getting a fine overlapping pattern, not as easy as it looks at all. I'm working on a series of artworks with these images now for a future exhibit. Meanwhile I've been studying the human brain and visual-perceptual system, so needless to say it's been a real inspiration for looking closer at how we process images and artwork too.

Grapher software can create the same images digitally and also in 3D, though I've not tried the program yet. If you are interested in generating similar images to these, I would highly recommend checking it out.