Drawing on modernist architecture, Toni Walker explores the spaces we inhabit – physically, mentally and spiritually. With a synthesis of urban experience and natural landscape, the paintings play with multiple picture planes – for example, a landscape painting in a room set against the window of the natural landscape. By interweaving the spatial dimensions of designed and natural spaces, Walker draws us in and out of interior and exterior, allowing us to consider how designed space can act as a lens for how we see the world.
In these images, qualities of landscape painting are juxtaposed with technical architectural styles, which consider aspects of how reflections and natural light interplay with elements such as the textures of furniture and the positions of objects in the space, also contributing to a complementary relationship between interiors and exteriors.
Kingston Arts Centre
Until 12 November, 2013
Melbourne
Glass house interior with Poussin Painting (The Burial of Phocion), 2013, oil and liquin on canvas, 91.5 x 107cm
Courtesy the artist
