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Fluid Mechanics
22 June to 13 July, 2006
Opened, Thursday 22 June 12:30pm
This is a not to be missed exhibition by two of our UOW colleagues, Jelle van den Berg and Richard Hook who both teach painting in the School of Art & Design, Faculty of Creative Arts. Besides teaching, both artists have local studios on the coast. Their common backdrop is the Pacific, a vast field of colour and light, but also an active agent, ebbing and flowing, covering and revealing, hammering and corroding.
“Fluid Mechanics” is a joint exhibition of their responses to the sea and coast, but it is also about the fluidity and viscosity of the paint medium. Water has no form of its own but fills available spaces; in watercolours and acrylics, water is paint and paint is water, both physically and metaphorically. The fluid medium can be pushed in all directions, layered in transparencies and allowed to flow over the surface in runs, drips and rills. Oil paint is a viscous medium; it slows down the flow and it gives water the weight and slowness of a body.
Jelle van den Berg:
“My titles are always: Pacific, because it makes me feel calm but recently have called the paintings Five Islands after my experience of looking at them and reflecting on their uncanny position.
There has been a moment in my life when I looked at the horizon and I realised I would never reach it, this fascinates me endlessly, it is the answer to all my questions about the universe and the place we occupy or something like that.”
Richard Hook:
“As a response to a place, my work deals with the visual analogies of the natural and the built environment, not as framed views of the coast around Port Kembla and the harbour, but as new, speculative landscapes in which flowing, organic, coastal forms marry with the industrial architecture and engineering of the port.”
Admission is free to all galleries at the Faculty of Creative Arts.
Opening Hours: 10:00 - 17:00, Monday - Friday
Location:
FCA Gallery
Building 25, Faculty of Creative Arts
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong NSW 2520
Parking: Pay and Display parking is available in the Western Carpark for visitors to the University. View Map
Information:
Tanya Barton
School of Art and Design
Faculty of Creative Arts
Phone: +61 2 4221 5853
Fax: +61 2 4221 3301
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