"My task is to set the conditions for potential images to emerge through putting ink, glue and oil in intimate relation. Sometimes things flow in fluid washes, sometimes they stick in crusty clumps of impasto. Always, they are the kind of visual incident that is also a gesture of openness..." – Penny Siopis.
Penny Siopis' Feral Figurations at Stevenson Gallery features new and recent paintings which demonstrate Siopis’s engagement with glue, ink and oil. Her Atlas series is shown in expanded form for the first time. With their uniform scale these works juxtapose various images and techniques in order to create new visual and psychological associations. The artist oscillates between liquid overlays, gestural washes and dense layers of ink and oil paint to create visually surprising works which reference art historian Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. A fascinating exhibition.
