DANIELLE TOOLEY ‘TRACKS’ 01.12. – 23.12.2016
“To paint the photograph is to negate the presumption of veracity that gives all photographs an authority of the objective. When photography is relieved of its position as the ‘necessarily real,’ so too does its fixed position as ‘past’ become disarticulated. In a painting of a photograph, there is coalescence between the ‘pastness’ of the photograph, and the continuing present of the observer, opening up a space in which time and memory can be generated by the image rather than documented by it. Examining our psychological relationship to the landscape through travel photography, the works presented in ‘TRACKS’ can be seen as instances of instability that open up interpretative possibilities. Oscillating between modes of abstraction and representation, between painting and photography, between form and content, the world of the painting can no longer be relegated to a position of the past to be recalled or forgotten, but instead constructs new relations between pasts in general, various actual presents, and virtual futures.” Danielle Tooley, 2016
‘Almanac I’, 2016, Oil on linen, 41cm x 61cm
‘Almanac II’, 2016, Oil on linen, 31cm x 45cm
‘Almanac III’, 2016, Oil on linen, 31cm x 45cm
‘Great Ocean Road’, 2016, Oil on linen, 71cm x 107cm
‘Grey-scale’, 2016, Oil on linen, 31cm x 31cm
‘Kosciuszko’, 2016, Oil on linen, 71cm x 107cm
‘Mirror-Image I’, 2016, Oil on linen, 61cm x 92cm
‘Night Painting I’, 2016, Oil on linen, 31cm x 45cm
‘Night Painting II’, 2016, Oil on linen, 31cm x 45cm
‘Skier III’, 2016, Oil on linen, 31cm x 31cm
‘Skier IV’, 2016, Oil on linen, 31cm x 31cm
Solo Exhibitions 2016 TRACKS, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Double Negative, Liverpool Street Gallery Project Space LS2, Sydney Group Exhibitions 2016 National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney Identity, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney A Place We Dream Of, Michael Reid Gallery, Murrurundi, NSW 2015 National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney 30.09.15. Home@735 Gallery, Sydney Honours Painting, 2015. NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney Centenary Institute Fundraising Event, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Dreamland, Klei Gallery, Sydney CBD The Most Alluring Clouds, NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney She, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, VIC 2014 National Art School Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney 2013 Drawing Week Show, Xavier Art Space, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney Awards, Scholarships & Residencies 2016 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize (Nick Waterlow Award) Onslow Storrier National Art School Residency, La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (to be undertaken in 2017) 2015 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, National Art School (Honours) Belle ArtStart Prize Sydney Canvas Company Painting Prize 2014 William Fletcher Foundation Grant Collections Macquarie Group Collection National Art School Collection Private Collections in Australia, UK, Singapore
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