Review
Review: Experiencing vegetal ontology: Emma Walker at Lismore Regional Gallery
Art Monthly Australasia, Vol.320, pp.52-53
01/11/2019
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Abstract
Screened during Walker's exhibition, Grayson Cooke's Open Air (2018) also alternates perspectives, coupling motion-controlled macro imaging of Walker's paintings with time-lapse Landsat satellite video of Australian territory.1 Dark Sublime and Emergence are, respectively, one of five larger and one of three smaller works in this immersive and performative exhibition - as viewers, we're transplanted into the forest. The works sit proud from the walls, are layered - as with the fecundity of a forest - in more board, differing materials (acrylic, oil, chalk, pastel), applica- tions (drips, spots, rubbing back), brushes (thick and thin) and brushstrokes (swathes, dots). There is movement in the works: trafficked vein-like mycelia, streams of water, floating clouds, spreading roots, peeling bark, ruptured tree trunks.
Details
- Title
- Review: Experiencing vegetal ontology: Emma Walker at Lismore Regional Gallery
- Creators
- Moya Catherine Costello (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Art Monthly Australasia, Vol.320, pp.52-53
- Publisher
- Art Monthly Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Identifiers
- 991012871299802368
- Academic Unit
- School of Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Review