Landswatch

SOAG Gallery, 15 Elizabeth St, Tighes Hill, NSW
3rd March - 27 March
Opening hours wed - sun 11am - 5pm

apple apathy, colour bond sigh, ink & acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 140cm, 2010	orange homogeneous, sunset interruptus, gannet gold, dyptich, 150cm x 130cm, ink & acrylic on canvas, 2010	sienna smog, churning sun, ink & acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 60cm, 2009

Floating green, Yaccaba Bean, 75cm x 70cm, ink & collage on paper, 2010	I key ya green, Pink serene, 85cm x 75cm ink on canvas, 2010	Rasberry Split, Lime Split, Sticky Fingers, Sandy Feet, 85cm x 95cm ink on paper, 2010	Tomaree Tomato, Muggy Moment, ink on paper, 75cm x 70cm, 2010	Headland Series 6, ink on paper colour swatch collage, 25cm x 30cm, 2010

About Landswatch

Landswatch are drawings inspired by the landscape of Port Stephens and colour swatches. While renovating a little stone cottage in Whyalla, several years ago, I became quite curious about the colour swatches I was collecting at the local hardware store and started doodling landscapes on them in black ink. I loved the organic form of the ink against the hard edge line of the block colour. I was amused by the names given to these colours and imagined people sitting in offices coming up with another new name for grey or pink. It had me reflecting on our obsession with decoration, and I had began coming up with my own names for colours. In a sense these new names tell a story, create associations, ideas and my observations of life. These colour names also became the basis of my work as I continued to draw landscapes onto these blocks of colour. There are more layers to it. The more I create, the more I read into it. I enjoy, through this process, exploring what landscape is to us; how we connect; how we don't connect; how landscape is merely a view we end up putting on our wall. It is also about 'art as decoration', suburban life, the environment and consumerism.
Previously I spent my time drawing the forms of the Upper Spencer Gulf and the Flinders Ranges as that is where I lived for seven years. Now I have become obsessed with the landscape forms of where I live now; Port Stephens. The shapes of Yaccaba and Tomaree feature predominately in my work as they are unique forms, floating on water and through these associations I form colours that tell a story.

Previous work

Selected Works from Long Sleep Plain,
Yarta Purtli Gallery, Port Augusta Cultural Centre, March 2009

Yarta Purtli Gallery, Port Augusta	After the rain - ink and pastel on paper, 150cm x 60cm, 2009	Roadside, Horrocks Pass, ink, pastel, watercolour and pencil on paper, 76cm x 56cm, 2008	Douglas Point, ink on paper, 105cm x 75cm, 2008	Long Stretch Myall, ink on paper, 60cm x 150cm, 2009	Long Sleep Plain , ink on paper, tryptich, 225cm x 450cm, 2009

Selected works from Love Vomited, An exhibition by Suzannah Jones & Fran Callen
Wheatsheaf Hotel, George Street, Thebarton
13th August - 1st September

Live bombs, ink on paper, 70cm x 80cm, 2009	Love vomited, ink on paper, 150cm x 60cm, 2009	Bombs, ink on paper, 150cm x 60cm, 2009	The end, charcoal & pastel on paper, 2009