A Safe Space: Animation and Painting installation

The first stage of the work shown @ Horse Bazaar, 3.5 min animation

A Safe Space: Animation and Painting installation @ Loop 07

Animations and painting in the installation were created from this image,

exploring use of cultivation and processing of the organic material to create a design.

This work was initially created for exhibition ‘Geek Chic’ at Loop in Melbourne.
The exhibition curated by Alex Gibson, with the intention of exploring an interaction between analogue and digital art. An adaptation of the work (without the painted element, for practical purposes) was picked up by Loop and featured there for several month following the exhibition.

‘A Safe Space’ Exploring concepts of beauty through a relationship between analogue and digital art.

The installation is representative of organism and environment as one. The use of colour and linear form create space that functions as a metaphor for: surface, skin, ground, the face of the earth as they reflect the subconscious, emotional space we all inhabit. Mostly it’s the space that connects these inner and outer worlds. Forms appear and dissolve like land masses through subdued pink hues as mind, memory and intuitions arise into clarity from a subconscious sea.

Projected works are sight specific, light and colour are used to transform and extend the space absorbing the viewer. The environment becomes it’s own world contained and enshrined, a safe space.

A published review can be found at Un:Vol 2:1 pg 69.