2011
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) Graduate Exhibition
24 November – 8 December
Official opening Thursday 24 November, 6 – 8 pm
Opening address
Emeritus Professor David
Williams AM
ANU Research School of
Humanities and the Arts
Opening hours 10 am – 5 pm weekdays
The Gordon, Basement Studios, C
Building
Cnr Gordon Ave &
Fenwick St, Geelong
Helen’s work
explores ideas of oneness and landscape.
Using print making and painting processes, in conjunction with her reading of the Song of Songs, she creates works that convey
to the viewer a sense of being immersed in landscape. Her work includes oil
paintings, an artists book and intaglio prints.
The Song
of Songs can be read as a metaphor for the human quest for relationship
which is divine. It is a story that
celebrates the fullness that flows from mutual self giving love - one to the
other. In the poem landscape is presented as a metaphor for such a
relationship. The lovers are in the
landscape and the landscape becomes the lovers: A landscape which is enriching,
abundant, fragrant, mysterious, fertile, secluded, and at times raw, fierce or
tender.
There are many readings of the poem, as
there are many interpretations of landscape. This reading juxtaposes my
interpretation of the text with images of indigenous coastal bushland at the
entrance to Port Philip. These vistas look to the interior of the Bellarine
Peninsula: Views that are often hidden and which need to be sought out to be
discovered and enjoyed.
 |
Helen Martin, I am dark, but lovely: reading the land with the Song of Songs, 2011,Artist Book, 26.7
x 38 x 2 cm bound, Edition of 8
|
No comments:
Post a Comment