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Night Studies: Seeing Home
27th August – 7th September, 2013
Opening Night:
Tuesday 27th of August 6.00 – 8.00pm
Extended gallery opening hours for this exhibition:
Tuesday & Friday: 10am – 5.30pm
Wednesday & Thursday: 10am – 7pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 4pm
Monday: by appointment only between 9am – 3pm.
Artist Talk: Saturday 31 August, 2 – 3pm.
In her first solo exhibition, Anne Numont invites us to meditate on place, time and the intimacy of drawing. Combining natural and mechanical forms of seeing, these local landscapes transmute into archetypal imagery, referencing nature, architecture and the digital.
Artist Statement:
“Sydney. It took me 25 years to admit that I love this city. This affection translates to a series of drawings, connecting and responding to my surroundings. Between the flux of the urban landscape, of time and self, I am constructing a sense of home.
I attempt to illustrate this complexity through a synthesis of seeing. The sharpness of human experience and sight, rough sketches, technical drawing and digital, photographic references are distilled into single, hand-drawn compositions. In this “data collation”, my creative process echoes a post-millennial condition that negotiates between, and often merges, physical and virtual existence, bridging tradition and technology. Influenced by my design background, patience tempers the intensive creative process. The results: detailed, at times almost obsessive.
Landscape is a way of resonating narratives arcing perception, culture and imagination. In rendering these landscapes, I explore meanings of “place” as physical location, social construct and, simply, being. Concerning the subject, these drawings ponder on the effects of light, weather and time to transform the appearance of landscape, blurring peripheries and fostering different readings. I try to depict this perceptual shift to open up a contemplative dialogue with the viewer. Night is a fascinating time when the physical act of seeing is obscured. Paradoxically, in not seeing, boundaries merge, voids are created and the possibilities of space become apparent. Within this contradiction, the traditional symbolism of night as a time of reflection and potentiality manifests.
Playing with scale, I invite the viewer to traverse between the picture and the paper surface. The viewer can look from afar, wander closer and lose oneself in the controlled mark-making.
This body of work allows me to immerse myself in the meditative nature of drawing while observing ritualistic aspects of place.”
About the Artist:
Anne Numont was a finalist in The Dobell Prize for Drawing, 2010. Recently, her work was published in Curvy Vol.8 (2012), selected into this year’s North Sydney Art Prize and a finalist in both the Yen Female Art Awards and the Art Month Sydney – Artist Speed Dating Program. Her primary medium is drawing and, conceptually, her work deals with ideas about place, landscape and psychology.