Exhibition

Shallow Space, 2014
ANCA Gallery, Canberra

A contemporary urban environment of two-dimensional print and screen-based images represents a culture of surfaces. Pictures and graphics from popular culture provide a metaphorical window on the world. Through this window, images of space are constructed using devices that create spatial illusion, including perspective, overlap and transparency. Peripheral graphics emphasising space support these techniques, such as arches, cornices and shelves. An illusion of space is exposed and complicated when images disobey correct pictorial and spatial procedures, interrupting and confusing the impression of three dimensions.

A constructed image of three-dimensional space on a flat surface primarily signifies a reflection of real space and objects in that space. The works in Shallow Surface explore this reflection, specifically the construction of a reflection using painterly techniques, and the way this relates to ideas about image mediation and revealing or concealing content.

7 - 28 July 2014