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24th Sept - 13th Oct 09
'Space Oddity' [2009]
fibre glass | resin | gesso + ink | ink on paper drawings
'The concept of a canvas limited, not by its edges, but rather the position of the viewer, intrigued me. Says Priscilla Brown of her endeavour to investigate whether sculptures can accommodate visual imagery as a distinct and separate feature, while maintaining a balanced relationship between the two disciplines. Her canvases are large white orbs featuring areas of painting and, in order to see everything, one must walk around the object and observe it from different points of view.
Looking at the surfaces of Priscilla Brown's spherical canvases, the areas on which intricate details have been painted with black pigment offer a selection of illusions: some appear as layers atop the hemisphere, like clouds over the Earth; and some seem to be buried within the object but momentarily exposed, as though an epidermis was peeled back to reveal intestinal workings below. Some suggest growth, others suggest decay, and despite being quite non-referential, these paintings (with the planetary shape of their canvases) allude to atmospheres, rock formations, insect burrows, flesh and muscular matterall organic functions and entities of the world that manifest in three-dimensional spaces from the most expansive to the most miniscule, and which, despite this disparity in scale, share an immediately-recognizable aesthetic that is prominent in nature
- an illusion of pattern, of simplicity.'
-Mythily Meher
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