Space
Flinders Lane Gallery
July 31-August 18
137 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
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| ZigZag, 2012. Oil, enamel and pencil on canvas, 153x153 cm |
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| Zebra, 2012. Oil, enamel, pigment and PVA on canvas, 41x31 cm. Sold |
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| Be Careful, 2012. Oil, enamel, pigment and PVA on canvas, 41x31 cm. Sold |
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| Bitumen Rose, oil on paper mache, 2x33x5 cm
'Time Space Infinity' Phe Luxford (exert)
The space between image and object is blurred in the
sculptural paintings of Terri Brooks. In many ways a flâneur, Brooks absorbs the physical
qualities of the built environment, delighting in the accidental textures and
material surfaces of concrete, building materials or bitumen roads. She is not
a landscape painter, but works to reflect the truth and beauty of the
utilitarian surfaces around her. Her canvases offer a sort of spatial
dislocation or inverse trompe-l'œil of reality, as isolated sections of the
everyday are reborn within the gallery setting. Like the ruins of antiquity her
remnants are ‘palpable, not pictorial…their presence shifts with vitality and
springs forth into awareness’.[i]
As replicas of the factual world, in all its decay and innate ordinariness,
these paintings subvert the idiom of preciousness and make the certain
uncertain.
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