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| Sybil Curtis |
| Inside Outside |
| Raymond Chai |
| Feb 20, 2000 |
Totally Without a Load - Sybil Curtis
Sybil Curtis's exhibition " Inside Outside" captures wonderful architectural interiors and exterior of industrail buildings from Sydney's Cockatoo Island.
Sybil mastered the quality of light and shades, textures and rhythm of industrial warehouse structures in repetitive manner. The paintings provide intrique layers of beauty through deep blues and charcoal grey steel and timber structures that form an aesthetically pleasing urban environment.
Sybil's paintings are beautifully crafted in fine details of industrial structures in precised geometry and rhythm.
As Sybil says, "I judge visual art first on abstract standards: mass, lights and darks, rhythms, tonality, technique, the use of detail to form a whole that is aesthetically and emotionally compelling. Shadows and reflections are so complicated that their real appearance may be abandoned and replaced by ones that enhance a composition. The internal dark spaces of the industrial buildings on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour and agriculture structures illuminated by strong sunlight are the sources for this body of work."
| Morgan Shimeld |
| Converge 2011 |
Rising Step Traced - Morgan Shimeld
The exhibition of Morgan Shimeld's bronze sculptures at Brenda May Gallery shows geometrical studies of abstract still life.
Morgan's sculptures embraces strong geometrical language in three dimensional space and volume. The linear sculptures interplay with the negative and positive spaces that transcend into "visual transparancy" effects. It's more admirable when you walk around the sculpture that "move" with you while exploring interesting geometrical shapes.
According to Morgan, "...They are strong and grounded monolithic shapes, using perspective and precisely angled planes. I have worked to take away and add segments, creating channels, tunnels and facets that have a quiet and still presence to them. These channels and facets act to draw the viewer into the work and often opposing sides will have quite a different sense of balance and perspective. "
" I then observe these objects and recreate them in wire, sometimes altering them or inverting some of the shapes during the process. This work challenges the viewer to see the solidity of the shape through its emptiness. If it is viewed from one angle the lines can appear to flatten causing the shape to collapse. However if you engage with the piece and walk around it, viewing it in motion, the surfaces of the planes begin to emerge. Differing from solid objects, which can only be seen one way, these illusory shapes can be seen in different ways in terms of their positive and negative spaces."
Source: Brenda May Gallery
Opening: 15 - 12 March 2011
Gallery: Brenda May Gallery
Address: 2 Dank Street Waterloo NSW 2017
Tel: 02 9318 1007
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