The Paradox of Reportage

The exhibition "Shifting Thru Platsic Gods",was endorsed by the Margret Lawerence VCA Gallery as part of Melbourne University Research parameters in Fine Art to explore the ways in which play, humour and instinctive processes are called upon to form a combination of images, objects and environments. The exhibition "seeks to explore the role intuition has in the construction of extended painting practices of some selected contemporary artists.
Hunches, unconfirmed belief systems and autobiographical visual tics make for an art which filters the knowledge of real observation and quantitative measurement into a deliberate phenomenal state in which free association and dreamlike philosophies are part of both the making and outcome of the art produced. Sifting through Plastic Gods surveys the innate compass these artists use to materialise ideas and feelings." (http://vca.unimelb.edu.au/gallery/2013_exhibition_program). Artists curated by Michael Georgetti included Trevelyan Clay, Anastasia Klose, Simon Pericich, Sophia Hewson, Josey Kidd Crowe and myself. My painting was titled "The Paradox of Reportage" and its accompaning editioned postcard researched notions of how intimate hand gestures in painting may be amplified psychologically through scale and media to subvert preconceived notions intamacy in abstract expressionist painting. The catalogue,which I wrote, for the exhibition used the format of imaginary surrealist conversations and observations to suggest a series of interconnected thought process' between the artists as they grappled with idea of free association as methodology in producing images and objects laden with possible social, historical and personal psychollogical readings and interpretations.