Art Rocks Solo Exhibition 23/5/2009
Cairns Regional Gallery 23/5/2009 – 28/6/2009
Challenging, Dynamic
H.O’Halloran, Melbourne
Wonderful! I will never look at rocks without remembering your work.
J. Demtatis, San Diego, USA
Your rocks Rock!
Nadine, Brisbane
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone- you made mine Rock!
Beq, Brisbane
Very Powerful – Excellent work.
L. Allen, W.A.
Such intensity and depth in the Earth’s formations.
R. Lade, Melbourne
Excellent technique, strong content.
D. Mayrance, A.C.T.
In this exhibition Simon employs a range of media to explore the concepts of scale, form and perspective in the landscape; of how, as a viewer of an artwork, we only get to experience an abstracted feature of the world seen through the artist’s eyes. Simon’s investigations therefore take us through some of the processes employed by artists to simulate the real world, utilising an aspect of the Australian landscape, namely rock faces, as an example of how a sense of form is created in a 2 dimensional environment.
Rocks are central to life; central to the urban forms we inhabit, of being witness to the passage of a juvenile humankind, and of being crushed and brushed by the artist. Simon’s sculptures, installations and paintings, through the application of digital technologies, rediscover how the use of colour and tone add to our comprehension of 3 dimensions. His discoveries aim to coax the viewer into a closer sensory association with what he has experienced and been moved by. Figures begin to appear in the renderings leaving him with a feeling that he has awoken to the spirit of Country and he is overcome with respect for the land and its story.
Quote:
As I sat pondering the form of the rock face opposite me in the gorge, I began to sense its enduring history; of how the rock has tolerated all that has elapsed and of how it still enjoys a stoicism that remains to the last weathered facet.
