These works were made in France over a two-month period in Marnay-sur-Seine, an hour east of Paris. The larger works took as their point of departure reflections on French culture of the recent past and today, painted on fabrics sourced locally. French maid: French made, uses an iconic film idea painted onto haberdashery cotton.
The small three-piece works are a new configuration, a combination of watercolour, canvas panel or small blackboard and pigment coloured Disney book pages sourced in Japan. The chiffons and organzas (curtain material) elaborate the theme of “layerings” also exhibited previously at Greenaway Art Gallery.
GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery
Until 19 December, 2014
South Australia
French Made: French Maid, 2014, oil and acrylic on rabbit skin glue primed cameo patterned cotton, diptych, 139 x 100cm (each)
Courtesy the artist and GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
