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FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS eclipse
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She is interested in memory and our relationship to time, and how our perceptions of everyday sights can lead us into different places, different times. She is particularly interested in how the language of paint can be used to lead the viewer into the open possibilities of a painting.
The
following pages contain a selection of recent and past paintings. Comments
and feedback from viewers are welcomed. Please contact
the artist for details of availability and prices, or if you would
like to be added to the mailing list for exhibitions.
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2004-2005 – these are from a series inspired by the sights of materials/surfaces/objects that are seen ‘underfoot’ in areas that the artist visits daily. The material of our everyday environment, whether it is from a landscape or a domestic space, can be full of strangeness and surprise. Things can suddenly be seen as if for the first time and then associations and memories attach themselves and complexity multiplies. The materiality of the paint has been used as a response to these glimpses of the everyday.
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the purpose is to understand paint, then there is no utility in making
a sharp line between concepts and chemicals: a concept can be a substance
in the mind just as a chemical is a substance in the world. Substances
occupy the mind as concepts, and concepts occupy the world as substances.
Thinking in painting is thinking as paint.
James
Elkins
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painting@francesblythe.iinet.net.au
Copyright Notice: The paintings reproduced on this site are copyright and may not be copied or used in any way without written permission from the copyright holder. Please contact Frances Blythe to request permission to use any works.
Photography and site design by the artist.
Last revised: 30 June 2008
