En_trance - Experience and Sensation in Nomadic Art
10th February - 10 March 2009
An exhibition that explores the way in which Aboriginal desert artists are transported spiritually through their aesthetic encounter with colour and canvas. Moved by memory and imagination the spirit travels through the hypnotic act of dotting, between state and place as it conceptually merges multiple layers of meaning.
The finished artworks are the result of sensuous animation, palpably visceral and mesmerising in their effect. They have no focus but invite the viewer to enter a crucial cultural performance. These are more than just shimmering palimpsests of colour. The energy and life-force enacted on to the painted surface evokes sensations and sensibilities that must primarily be experienced and felt. The artist’s country has become numinous and is alive through this process of making the art.
