Postgraduate Summer Program: assessment exhibitions

Katherine Edney Hidden Fractures; A Narrative in Time

A narrative or story is not static. This body of work of her attempts to respond the following question: how does one produce a pictorial narrative within a static medium such as painting? The contrast between painting and film, where painting is fixed while film is in constant motion throughout its duration, has had the most profound impact upon Edney’s work. However, whilst it is common for visual narratives to portray a specific passage of time and odering of events, her work react against a familiar unity of time and place and is presented as a combination of several instances of time and place.

Bernadette Trela Limerence

MFA Candidate Bernadette Trela explores the nature of the Romantic Landscape and intimacy in the landscape. Historically, artists and their audiences have recognised the enigmatic power of the painted Romantic Landscape in arousing an emotional response to nature. With this tradition in mind, MFA candidate Bernadette Trela employs the ambiguity of paint and surface to evoke a sense of time, place, atmosphere and emotion.

Employing a dark and tonal palette with lightness painted from the darkness, the paintings are minimal, monochromatic, abstracted, scenes of intuitive landscape. Drawing on memory and an instinctual feel for nature the landscapes are painted rapidly and in the multiples in the studio from various sketches and photographs lending a sense of freedom of expression and spontaneity to the elemental and formal forces in the landscape.