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Brett Hill - artist profile |
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 |
click to enlarge image | "I wanted to paint something that was personal for the viewer. That might seem self evident, but most works of art are about the artist and what they want to tell you, or show you or explain to you.
Fragmenting the landscape was a way of making the painting work in the same way as our visual memory. The image in our head, our memory, is really the concept of the memory.
An image doesn’t rest in our mind like a postage stamp. What we refer to as the image is the concept, presented to us in numerous fragmentary moments that come and go elusively, but leaving traces of something original and indefinable. It’s a personal experience made up of our senses and emotions, and maybe many more things besides that.
When we recall an image, the concept of the image, we move through the fragments like we move through a forest, from stage to stage, connecting parts of them progressively, but never connecting all of them at once.
So we are placing ourselves inside these painting and moving about them in small steps in the same way we move through the forest."
Born July 1952, New Zealand.
1984 Solo exhibition; ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Earth’ at ‘Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Expressionist in style; the conflict between man and the world portrayed in a dark landscape devoid of right and wrong or even shelter.
1997 - 2004 Exhibited at New Collectables, Code Red and The Hawthorn Gallery.
Work primarily using the ocean as a metaphor for man’s struggle with meaning.
2006 Solo exhibition; ‘Expedition’ at Elements Art Gallery, Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia.
A series of landscapes, themselves steps on an expedition, moving forward from one painting to the next as a way of developing and understanding my work.
2007 Solo exhibition; ‘Modern Times’ at Elements Art Gallery, Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia.
A statement about the current state of integrity and responsibility of those in positions of power, and their abuse, both politically and economically, of that power.
Exhibited at Joondalup City Art Awards.
2008 Solo exhibition; ABD The Gallery, Perth, Western Australia.
Private collections: New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore, Perth.
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