Electric Prisms | 17-27 October 02019 TooT Artspace, St Kilda
I spent a lot of time driving in early 02017 as I tried to get my infant daughter to nap. It was a time when I was reflecting deeply on the state of the world - not uncommon for a new parent. We live in a time of rampant climate change, of political tension and rising nationalism. I could often get caught up in it all, the overwhelming knowledge that this tenuous environment was the world I had brought my daughter into.
On these drives, I found myself increasingly drawn to the wind farms in the surrounding landscape. I’d sit in my car and watch their arms sweep the sky; the rhythm calmed me.
In 01914, Sonia Delaunay was so inspired by the newly installed electric lampposts on the streets of Paris, that she painted a work exploding with colour and rhythm. The world in 01914 was not calm; like now it was coming to terms with a society transformed by new technologies, global politics were precarious and Europe was on the precipice of the First World War. In the centre of all this Delaunay walked down a street in Paris and saw the promise of the future.
Looking at this painting from over a century ago, I see not only a connection between the subject matter, nor just the historical similarities – I see now.
The winds that propelled progress in Sonia Delaunay’s Paris are the same that propel us now. But what I see when I look at the wind turbines is opportunity, a chance to slow down, to change direction. Like Delaunay’s Electric Prisms, I see the wind turbines resonate hope in the landscape.
I see the future. A deep future. I see optimism.
View the full exhibition below or contact TooT Artspace to see it in person.
Electric Prisms 01913-02019 02019
Acrylic on canvas
110 x 85cm
SOLD
The past can be seized only as an image… 02019
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 45cm
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… an unexpected image, singled out by history 02019
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 45cm
SOLD
A leap into the clear air of history 02019
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 80cm
SOLD
Brush history against the grain 02019
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 80cm
SOLD
Blast open the continuum 02019
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 80cm
SOLD
Angelus Novus 02019
Acrylic on canvas
110 x 85cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms #5 02019
Acrylic on canvas (float framed in Tasmanian oak)
30 x 30cm (34 x 34cm framed)
SOLD
Electric Prisms #8 02019
Acrylic on canvas
37 x 27.5cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms #9 02019
Acrylic on canvas
37 x 27.5cm
$320
Electric Prisms #10 02019
Acrylic on canvas
37 x 27.5cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #1 )02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #2) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #3) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #4) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
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Electric Prisms
(Sketch #5) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #6) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
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Electric Prisms
(Sketch #7) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
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Electric Prisms
(Sketch #8) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #9) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #10) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #11) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #12) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #13) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD
Electric Prisms
(Sketch #14) 02019
Acrylic on paper
18 x 13cm
SOLD