‘Negations express presence,’ writes Wayne Koestenbaun in ‘Schuyler’s Colours’. ‘Such negatives provide the pleasure of an atmosphere half-there, half-gone.’
In ‘Changing Places’ Celia Gullet presents a new series of works that refuse definition and clear description – thickly painted surfaces, conflux layers reduced to geometrical shapes, lines and block colours. Gullet’s paintings reference place attachment and emotional response by negating them, simplifying these memories, places and feelings to abstracted forms. However, Gullet speaks to the surface; and in turn, the surface speaks back.
Celia Gullett, Variations series II, 2020, oil on panel, 30 x 25cm. Courtesy the artist and Jan Murphy Gallery, Queensland
Jan Murphy Gallery
14 July to 1 August 2020
Queensland
