Lorraine Rastorfer "Zeigen"

Lorraine Rastorfer’s “works are characterized by a remarkable finesse, superb restraint, a restricted but articulate palette, softness of presence and command of the viewers eye”. (1) Her paintings utilize reflective surfaces, metallic presence and authoritative brushstrokes, integrating texture, pattern and the notion of repetition to create an ambiguous and illusory depiction of space.

Rastorfer spent two years living in Japan and credits this experience for her love of aesthetics of refinement and restraint. Surfaces glisten with overlaid fibrous thread like patterns in metallic reds, blues, pinks and bronze referencing silk oriental fabrics or Japanese Zen gardens.

“The viewer is drawn in by the shimmering woven lines which swirl, overlay and intersect the canvas…The ambiguous nature of the work coupled with the virtuoso handling of the traditional mediums significantly impress.” (2)

Lorraine Rastorfer was born in 1961, Wellington. She completed a Master of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts 1992 and has exhibited regularly since. Currently Rastorfer is a senior lecturer in Visual Arts at the Centre of Creative Industries, Wellington Institute of Technology. Runner up in the Wallace Art Award 1993 and a finalist 1999-2002 & 2004, Rastorfer has been awarded numerous awards and grants including 2005 CoCA/Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award, 2003 Wellington Institute of Technology Research Grant, 2001 Art Waikato National Art Award and 1993 Ida Eise Painting Award. Her work is represented in corporate collections such as Chapman Tripp, Telecom, Auckland Institute of Architects and James Wallace Arts Trust, and in private collections in Japan, Australia, UK, USA, Austria and New Zealand.

(1) Stephen Higginson, OverView: Abstraction and Still Life, Milford Galleries
Dunedin, 2004
(2) Dr Richard Bullen & Margaret Duncan, Judges Comments, 2005 CoCA/Anthony
Harper Award

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