TRENA EVERUSS: These drawings follow my continued interest in urban environments. Interpreting place is important to me in equal measure with the formal qualities of the drawing. This allows the intimate representation of the familiar, and a distancing as the house, cart, tree dissolve into an arrangement of coloured surfaces and shapes. In conjunction with the realism the abstract qualities of the scene gives the images a sense of memory, strongly detailed but holding the viewer back from joining the scene. Fiji and Indonesia are represented in these works. It is the Fiji and Bali behind the tourist scene. It is about the way people live.
Image Left: Trena Everuss, Food Cart Orange Tarp, Jogja, 2015, pastel on arches paper, 74 x 55 cm [framed]
ROB GUTTERIDGE: The works featured in this exhibition have all, in some way, been shaped by travel. In 2011 I was the Australian artist selected for the Rimbun Dahan Malaysia/ Australia Visual Arts Residency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This provided the opportunity of a year of uninterrupted painting and drawing immersed in a tropical environment, a foreign country, different culture and language, and kampong life. The Malaysian works, in part, reflect my response to cultural sensitivities about depictions of the human figure, whilst maintaining my interest in the forms of nature, human anatomy and visual perception.
Image Right: Rob Gutteridge, Malaysia sky, Oil on linen, 180 x 220 cm
