YOU'VE GOT TO BE DREAMING
This exhibition is based on spatial ideas about Carrick Hill's interior which holds rich layers of history, the balcony and stairs date back to 15th Century England. Sheila’s art work investigates the way the collective and social memory is evident within this interior space. The viewer is asked to engage with fairly complex and improbable constructions. This contemporary mixed media work pushes the boundaries of illusion, denying the geometric of space to become structures of fantasy and imagination.
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Balcony of Daydreams. 6 panels complete, 2009
Gouache, inks, conte, acrylic, collage, on paper.
65x 8 metres, comprising 6 panels.
The six panels placed together and shown in the exhibition Survey Thirteen at Adelaide Central Gallery at Norwood 2009. The artistic intention was that the work would be viewed and "read" from left to right. One would follow the aged balcony that forms the trajectory flowing through the rooms - sometimes as a shadow.. as a collective memory.
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Balcony of Memories, 2008
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
92x76cm framed
[Purchase for $1400]
My reading has been about the imagination when we were children. Exploring places and spaces, a world of wonder and experiences both sad and happy. The memories are many and Carrick Hill near Adelaide reminds me of those memories. This work is about the memories of times past that the old balcony (14th Century) has existed through prior to being salvaged and shipped to Australia.
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Beckoning Doorways-Carrick Hill., 2008
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
100x79cm framed
[Purchase for $1600]
My reading has been about the imagination when we were children. Exploring places and spaces, a world of wonder and experiences both sad and happy. The memories are many and Carrick Hill near Adelaide reminds me of those memories. The lived experience within the interior allows the viewer to enjoy finding what is behind the doorways.
Framed
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Disturbed Interior., 2008
Gouache, inks, conte, acrylic, collage, on paper.
120x 95 cm. framed size.
[Purchase for $1800]
My reading has been about the imagination when we were children. Exploring places and spaces, a world of wonder and experiences both sad and happy. The memories are many and Carrick Hill near Adelaide reminds me of those memories. This work is about the comfort and protection of a house when storms are raging outside.
Fear of Heights, 2007
Gouache, conte, charcoal, ink, gold, collage.
120x 95 cm. framed size.
Architecture as a metaphor provided an opportunity to work with what I describe as psychological space. The forms allow me to use stairways, tunnels, passages gates and doorways that are open or closed to explore possible meanings which facilitates the imagery of journeying, I love to draw the soaring height of a building. This interior is a part of Antoni Gaudi's Temple de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Sold
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