URBAN ECHO ROTORUA ARTISTS EXHIBITION AUGUST- SEPT 2010

This is an exciting initiative led by Kristian Lomath, extraordinary artist of Rotorua, a full 360 degrees of the exhibition taken early in September 2010 can be seen at Rotorua Artists
Currently some 35+ artists are participating, promising of great creative juices to come !!
The venue is an empty ex mall, a huge empty shell of a place, perfect for this kind of actvity, and something that really works for me - responding to a site ... hence my contributions as per photos below
© all images Miriam Ruberl
Currently some 35+ artists are participating, promising of great creative juices to come !!
The venue is an empty ex mall, a huge empty shell of a place, perfect for this kind of actvity, and something that really works for me - responding to a site ... hence my contributions as per photos below
© all images Miriam Ruberl
ABOVE :
TITLE : 93 x 16 Vertical
MATERIALS : Mutton cloth and Wax
SUPPORT : Stretched commercial support
MEDIUM : Horizontality
DESCRIPTION : Made within the same context and process as described below with the canvas and wax works, mutton cloth has wonderful everyday associations and uses, and the wax mixture in this case is primarily paraffin wax – the wax of no affinity.
The graphic was used for my personal invitations to the opening ...
TITLE : 16 x 93 Vertical MATERIALS : Raw Canvas and Wax SUPPORT : Commercial canvas MEDIUM : Horizontality
DESCRIPTION : This, and the 16 x 93 Horizontal, are of a number of pieces exploring the use of canvas, normally the support for paint in visual art, as the material of visual interest, and working on the horizontal plane. Experiments with waxes have produced a wax mixture, in this case primarily soy wax, that withstands considerable everyday heat, handling and transport. |
Of great relevance to me is the questioning of notions of strength and durability as opposed to the potential emptiness and limitation of implied deterioration. While in no way seeking to illustrate events in my life, my work arises directly out of my life experience.
I am interested in the play of natural light on naturally coloured materials without the complication of coloured pigments, using traditional materials in unusual ways, and in these days of greater ecological awareness and concern, using industrial or traditional products, by-products, or even waste-products, that have a lot of other uses, as both wax and canvas do. These works also refer to the power of repetition, of line, and scale, and their evocative power to echo our experience of the world and of our bodies.
I am interested in the play of natural light on naturally coloured materials without the complication of coloured pigments, using traditional materials in unusual ways, and in these days of greater ecological awareness and concern, using industrial or traditional products, by-products, or even waste-products, that have a lot of other uses, as both wax and canvas do. These works also refer to the power of repetition, of line, and scale, and their evocative power to echo our experience of the world and of our bodies.
art afoot...

The floor is covered in wonderful traces of prior uses ....