 | Submariner II by Richard Hook from the exhibition, Fluid Mechanics Submariner II by Richard Hook from the exhibition, Fluid Mechanics |  | Headlands by Jelle van den Berg from the exhibition, Fluid Me... Headlands by Jelle van den Berg from the exhibition, Fluid Mechanics |
Fluid Mechanics
An exhibition of paintings by
Richard Hook and Jelle van den Berg
10 May – 6 July 2008
Illawarra coastal landscape paintings by Visual Art Lecturers with the Faculty of Creative Arts, Richard Hook and Jelle van den Berg - on display at Wollongong City Gallery from 10 May to 6 July 2008.
Hook and van den Berg share a common interest in the ocean, its coastal formations and the dynamics of its spaces, horizon, rhythms and tidal flows. Each artist looks out at the Pacific Ocean from different points on the South Coast – one from the escarpment and the other from beside an industrial harbour.
Rather than focusing on the more obviously picturesque aspects of the Illawarra, both artists use paint in ways that are not necessarily representational, but simultaneously describe what they see and express how they feel about their subject matter.
Van den Berg’s paintings are based on the proximity of the natural environment and industrial surroundings, with a particular focus on the mystique of the Five Islands and the space that exists between the painter, the horizon and the islands.
Hook’s works condense the industrial coast into linear forms which play with gesture and grid to create an aesthetic based on the processes of the natural world and the connections between elements of the natural environment.
Fluid Mechanics presents an array of essences that relate to corporeal experiences to memory, and to poetry. The marks, surfaces and colours of van den Berg and Hook’s paintings allow audiences to take a journey into and through the other barrier, the other membrane, still largely unknown but always permeable.
Officially opened by Professor Amanda Lawson, Head, School of Art & Design, University of Wollongong, on Friday 9 May at 7pm.
View Exhibition Catalogue
For more information contact:
Wollongong City Gallery
Corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets, Wollongong
Tel +61 2 4228 7500
Fax +61 2 4226 5530
Email gallery@wollongong.nsw.gov.au
http://www.wollongongcitygallery.com/html/program2.html#jelle
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