PIGMENT

GROUP EXHIBITION

ELIZABETH WOJCIAK

Elizabeth Wojciak expresses her creativity through abstraction, using paint as a physical medium to create pieces that evoke emotions, reactions, and memories.

Elizabeth’s intuitive approach to art aims to capture the complex nature of nostalgia.

Utilising colour, texture, and shape, she invites viewers to engage with her perspective and reflect on their own experiences.

marisha matthews

Family Silver 

With a cultural heritage in British India, these still life compositions include inherited objects that reflect the legacy of colonialism. Anglo Indian heritage is particularly strange because its decendants have both the British, and Indian backgrouds and were compelled to make a sudden choice about their identity at a single point in history. Families were sometimes divided by the genetic lottery of skin colour.  These works remind me to examine my inheritance. The objects that I’ve painted link me to dubious practices, beliefs, and artifacts with colourful pasts. What do I do with the claw of a tiger shot by my great great grandfather? Or the silver spoon that once served Maharajas on a train? 

nick rutten

Using gestural mark making a bold colour pallet, Nick’s work is a blend of mid-century modern abstraction.

Inspired by seasonal change he explores geometric shapes and recurring patterns overlapping transparent parts of the picture exposing  transparent parts of the picture exposing light and shadow within the painting, creating a depth of view for the audience.

 CHRIS SMALL

Chris Small work attempts to represent the complexity of seemingly simple small human interactions with spaces in nature. Each tiny action creates imperceptible geological shifts, such as simple actions like picking up and observing shells and rocks on beach walks. Her layering painting practice reflects how the shadow of our human presence, is continuously etched into landscapes over time, until our human bodies ultimately return to becoming fragments in a complex and beautiful eco-system.