Payne uses environmental textures and forms as the material for creating his fragile human figures. Payne explains, “the body is a transparent screen fabricated from steel, so the form is both fragile and intrinsically strong. The interplay of positive and negative spaces metaphorically balances the dichotomies that are part of the human condition.
“The body, identity, sense of place, dislocation and detachment are themes that continue to feature strongly. How does the insignificance of a life span relate to the vastness of geological time, as played out in fields and textures developed from sublime sky or mountain landscapes?”
Brenda May Gallery
July 31 to August 18, 2012
Sydney
Patsy Payne, Solitude, 2012, digital print on Rives BFK 300gsm paper, 120 x 80cm
Courtesy the artist and Brenda May Gallery
