Katie Eraser: Snug Succour

Katie Eraser’s ‘Snug Succour’ is a journey through the familiar and fresh terrain of new media. The exhibition features 30 major works including large-scale textile pieces that provide stimuli for sculptured clusters, that in turn, motivate a new mode of embodied exploration. Eraser’s distinct visual language of form and colour sees a freshly simplified and deliberate use of line and texture; a tightly considered and thoughtful offering that showcases a newly determined view of the interplay between these elements.

Katie Eraser, Snug Succour. Photograph: Tatanja Ross

Katie Eraser, Snug Succour. Photograph: Tatanja Ross

Artist statement:

‘The human experience of self-imposed seclusion, or socially constructed ostracism, is a space that belies a struggle that is not uniquely our own. If we are bound to reveal ourselves in darkness, and don a mask to perform in light, can you blame people for reaching towards chemical comfort?

Looking to aspirational notions of comfort, specifically within the home environment. These new works brightly climb out of the depths of isolation and render a new day rising under the guise of radiant expressions of abstraction. The works have been refined and simplified over and over until the shapes that form the works are unrecognisable from their original inspirations.

My practice has developed into new mediums, specifically textile works, as a deliberate act to extend their practice and visual language beyond the rigidity of wood and solid forms. Creating a space filled with opposing textures and variances, both soft and hard, replays key focuses of emotions intersecting with environment.

If we each aspire to feel safety, security and comfort {Snug} in and outside of our darkest moments, and recognise this as a human need we should all be afforded, maybe we can find more time to support, care and aid {Succour} each other. Possibly then we can be free of chemical comforts.’

Besser Space
2 to 4 February, 2018
Melbourne

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