Title

Patsy Payne: Chimera

Venues

Brenda May Gallery. (2 June 2009 – 27 June 2009)

Date

(2009)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Prints

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

My work attempts to make sense of physical and emotional experiences of the world, in relation to internalised systems and the paradigms of science. The possibility of layering, allowed by print processes, is a metaphor for the multi-layered nature of knowledge and experience. Overlay is employed as a strategy to both conceal and reveal meaning. I also use piercing, creating stencils that can be used in print processes and in the generation of drawing sequences. Piercing makes the back and front of paper unavoidably apparent. Holes allow one side to connect with the other and allow materials such as graphite to slip from one surface to another. The boundary between back and front (inside and outside, or here and there) is made permeable. Moreover, piercing creates a track, the regular holes that mark a topographic level or the structure of a plant.

These works invoke landscape, with its geographical and geological histories, as well as the structures and topographies of the body. I want to suggest the possibility of parallel as well as intertwined systems, with their own intrinsic meanings and multidimensional connections.  [Gallery media, 2009].