Queensland-based artist Petalia Humphreys engages her audience in the abstract nature of her work with playful gestures, which seek to highlight the relationship between objects and the spaces they inhabit. Her reductive cube paintings challenge tradition by occupying corners and by being hung in positions outside of the viewer’s eye-line.
‘With hard-edge, geometric forms, my work encourages an interactive approach, inviting the audience to engage in playful ways, considering ways of looking, perceiving and viewing the work within the gallery space,’ shares Humphrey.
Petalia Humphreys, SB #18, 2021, acrylic on plywood, 20 × 20 × 20cm. Courtesy the artist and Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Noosa Regional Art Gallery
16 July to 5 September 2021
Queensland
