Clare Purser, Robyn Gibson: Small Studies

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Tue 7 Sep ’10, 5:30pm–7:00pm	Saving
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Where: Satellite Gallery, 136a Newton Road, Newton Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

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Clare Purser finds inspiration in the letters and postcards sent ‘home’ in colonial times to friends and family. Like aged snapshots of another time, the rugged texture of the surface and the ambiguous forms combine to evoke a mood of isolation and mystery. Painted onto salvaged native wood panels, these small postcard-like paintings offer glimpses of a raw and primal landscape.

Robyn Gibson's work is uncanny; strange flirtations take place with the viewer in these small noir portrait paintings. The solo subjects are positioned awkwardly within the canvas, as though their peculiar physicality represents the metaphysical constraints placed on them.

There is also a suggestion of illusion; hidden elements inhabit the dark corners where lingering traces of adversity lie among life's affirmations.

The paintings are in oil, applied assiduously with technical know-how and dexterity; their texture, depth and darkness resonate with Robyn’s interest in the metaphysical aspect of human nature.