Two dynamic painting shows are in their final week at MOP Projects, Chippendale: everywhere for going by Belem Lett and UNTITLED FUN by Paul Williams.
Paul Williams’ work contains a playful use of line-work and colour, with domestic motifs, figures and silhouettes floating in and out of pattern and space. By layering, blocking out and combining abstract and ambiguous forms, the paintings are an expression of the gestural and spatial play of abstraction, as well as the artist’s light-hearted approach to ‘the game of painting’. Made in physical and intuitive ways, they are a result of spontaneity and chance within the studio.
Belem Lett’s work has been created since traveling overseas, where the experience of navigating unfamiliar terriority has informed his interest in virtual mapping and psychogeography. Lett explores a world mediated through memory and experimentation, traversing collected memory of landscape perception: through stained and folded surfaces of the paintings; topographic forms of sculptures on shaped plinths; and drawings made by mark-making responding to data collection of GPS tracking and sound recordings.
Throughout both artists’ work, a use of vivid colour and the act of layering, erasure, and re-transformation resonates through the varied scales of the works. The links between the expression of physical experience, journeys, uncertainty and intuition translates into a refreshingly playful and defined collection of work.
MOP Projects
23 August – 9 September
Belem Lett, Everywhere for going, 2012, mixed media on canvas and linen, 162.5 x 315 cm, and Sentinels (1-5), 2011-2012, mixed media on canvas and plywood, approx. 150 x 40 x 40 cm each
Paul Williams, Fudge, 2012, oil on canvas, 225 x 195cm
Belem Lett, Sound drawings (1-10), 2012, mixed media on paper, 34.5 x 44.2 cm
Paul Williams, Blink, 2012, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 91.5cm