Deliberate Pictures
NATALIE LAVELL 17 July - 9 August 2020
Deliberate Pictures is part of a continuing inquiry into concepts that explore surface relationships where visual perception prompts a tangible awareness of painting’s objecthood in relation to our own body and the natural world. These works retain a connection to the ‘thereness’ and ‘thingness’ of a painting, instead of contemplating it as ‘neither being nor nothingness’. They request viewers to comprehend the reality of art, the medium, and the materials that is presented to them. Paintings that offer their own medium as subject point, both, inward to themselves and outward to their relationship with other things. In turn, we become conscious of a recognisable common physicality between object and Self and ultimately our space amongst all things. Working in spontaneous and investigational methodologies, the paintings navigate constructed forms and space through various brushwork and stitching embedded together in abstract and monochromatic compositions.
Untitled I (Deliberate Pictures Series) 2020 Acrylic and thread on canvas 137cm x 101.5cm $2,800 Image: Louis Lim.
Untitled II (Deliberate Pictures Series) 2020 Acrylic and thread on canvas 122cm x 183.5cm $3,200 Image: Louis Lim.
Untitled III (Deliberate Pictures Series) 2020 Oil and thread on canvas 137cm x 101.5cm $2,200 Image: Marc Princop.
Untitled (Hang) 2018 Acrylic on canvas 183cm x 160cm $2,400 Image: Louis Lim.
Untitled (Rectangles are lighter than squares) 2020 Acrylic on Italian linen 122cm x 351.5cm(Diptych) $6,500 Image: Marc Princop.
Untitled (Rectangles are lighter than squares, Dioxazine Purple) 2020 Acrylic on Italian linen 122cm x 351.5cm (Diptych) $6,500 Image: Marc Princop.
Burnt Umber and Ultramarine Blue I 2020 Oil on Italian linen 213.4 cm x 167.6 cm $5000 Image: Marc Princop.
Rectangles are lighter than squares (Australian Sap Green) 2020 Acrylic colour on board 45.5cm x 37.5cm $880 Image: Marc Princop.
Rectangles are lighter than squares (Dioxazine Purple III) 2020 Acrylic colour on board 49.5cm x 41cm $880 Image: Marc Princop.
Rectangles are lighter than squares (Dioxazine Purple I) 2020 Acrylic colour on board 45.5cm x 37.5cm $880 Image: Marc Princop.
Rectangles are lighter than squares 2020 Acrylic colour on board 45.6cm x 40.5cm $880 Image: Marc Princop.
Rectangles are lighter than squares (Gulfstream) 2020 Acrylic colour on Italian linen 35.5cm x 87.5cm (Diptych) $1900.00 Image: Marc Princop.
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