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Wendi Leigh, Prolific Vs Unique, Textiles 2007

Thick

3rd Year

Bachelor of Creative Arts - Visual Arts

3 – 28 March 2008

Thick-skinned. Thick in the head. To lay it on thick. Through thick and thin.

Eternal clichés or eternal truths? This exhibition is an exploration of visual language, meaning and surface. From subtle nuances through to the garish, Thick reflects a range of creative expression. Reverberating between dualities of texture, colour, form and medium, the exhibition is ultimately a raw and sensuous expression of intuitive human exposure and vulnerability, laid open and bare.

Drawing from the likes of abstract expressionists such as Gottlieb, Rothko, Newman and Pollock, each artist in the exhibition adapts their own methods of gestural painting and artistic creation, applying innovative techniques to surface area and material matter. These unique qualities lend many of the works a temporal quality, shedding light on the throwaway nature of contemporary society through objects and materials that are re-created through visual expression.

Thick is a cross-section work from third-year Visual Arts students of the Faculty of Creative Arts. A composite of artists with new ideas and enlightening methods of producing work that tests the virtues of creative language, revealing inconsistencies in the automatically accepted modes of art-making as universal truth. Thickness is not a mere measure of physical width, but a term that, by its very nature of incorporation into informal idioms, reveals multi-layered linguistic adaptations - the mark of human expression.

Long Gallery
Upstairs, Building 25
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Admission: Free of charge