CONTENTS
Page One:
- Katherine Boland: Her New Exhibit On Fire
Page Two:
- M. Jordan Tierney: at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Page Three:
- Ivan Govaerts: Figurative and Ornamental Art
- Kenneth E. Wooten: Folk Style Decorative Art
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Char |
Australian abstract artist, Katherine Boland of Melbourne is once more exhibiting her work
at the
ARTEFACT
International gallery on Fitzroy Street in the elegant St. Kilda
district of Melbourne. On Fire is the first exhibition in
her successful career where she has shown works incorporating
pyrographic techniques.
Her solo exhibition of strong abstract images, Katherine says,
"relates to fire on many levels." The powerful images she
projects in her Artist's
Statement offer further testimony to the depth of her art work.
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Ritual |
Katherine's mixed media abstract works, which sell for about AUS$5000,
are large, generally about 135 cm. by 115 cm. (4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 10
in.).
Regarding her materials and techniques, she says, "I use a lot of
bitumen paint, gold leaf, wood stains and liming solution on the wood
panels as well as wood burning and blow torching."
Because of her newfound interest in pyrography and her considerations
about where she might go with it in her art work, Katherine is looking
to study more about the technique itself to explore its possibilities:
She says, "I am so much looking forward to continuing working with
pyrography and learning more about it from the International Association
of Pyrographic Artists (IAPA). I have already been given some tips by
artists on the site. I am really interested in hearing from artists in
Paris or Barcelona who are using pyrography. I have a good chance of
winning an Australian Arts Council studio residency to either of these
places if I can find some one there who is working professionally in
this field and is prepared to teach me more about pyrography."
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"The show is a great success," Katherine wrote
enthusiastically in mid March of this year, " with some pieces
selling as I was hanging the exhibition! I have now sold almost half of
the works with still a few remaining days of the exhibition to go."
To see Katherine's striking abstracts in Melbourne, contact Anita
Traverso at the ARTEFACT
International Gallery in Melbourne.
View more pieces of Katherine Boland's work on line in the Katherine Boland
Salon in the E-Museum of Pyrographic Art.
The motivation for the turn in Katherine Boland's career is palpable in
this excerpt from her Artist's
Statement:
" The most dominant and emotional element affecting my work at
the moment is the end of a twenty-seven year relationship; its demise
ignited by a fatal fire over two years ago, all subsequent events
fuelled by the devastation. The sense of impermanence . . . becomes
even more vivid as my art and I embark on a new journey. At once scared
and excited."
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2003, Kathleen M. Garvey Menéndez, all rights reserved.
