MEDIA RELEASE
FIONA HALSE
RECENT WORK
26 July -13 August, 2005
Fiona Halse takes Klee’s line for a walk. She displays the versatility and expressiveness of line through her of small oval paintings and mixed media works on paper.
Several of the oval paintings were selected for the annual Mary Place Gallery Exhibition of Six Young Artists (Sydney 2004). There is also an array of recent drawings and mixed media works which display a break in style from the small contained oval format to calligraphic open compositions in the recent works on paper.
The exhibition has a golden hue. The ovals are have a Early Renaissance Icon feel and the long drawings have a similar suspension in form as Japanese Screens.
Both often have an ochre mid-tone.
The work is found and discovered in a direct manner, the process of drawing is important in these works. The oval paintings are reworked in the fast drying acrylic and the drawings has a sense of re-assessment , collage, re-cut and redrawn aspect to them. All works search for harmony and rhythm in form and color.
Line traces that search.
Every line says “ Here I am!” each holds its own, reveals its own eloquent features and whispers “Listen to my secret!” (Kandinsky)
Fiona Halse, born in 1974, graduated from Monash University 1996. She has received The Ella Donald Scholarship and Ian Potter Grant. She was selected for the MPRG National Works on Paper and Sothesby’s Taste in Art Auction. More recently she was selected from artists in Australia and New Zealand to be in the annual Mary Place Gallery Young Artists Exhibition 2004 and she was selected for the Prometheus Art Award 2005. She has also been selected for a support stipend residency at Can Serrat International Art Centre, Montserrat, Spain 2006.
This is Fiona Halse’s third solo show.
Where: Red Gallery, 157 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North, VIC
Website: www.redgallery.com.au
Contact: mail@redgallery.com.au/ (03) 9482 3550
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12.00-6.00 pm
Opening: Wednesday July 27th, 6.00-8.00 pm
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