Translucent Landscapes: Light in the Antarctic: Margaret Elliot

Monday, February 27, 2012

Light in the Antarctic: Margaret Elliot

Freeze Frame 1

The pressure ridge reared up like a frozen wave threatening to break as we walked along it into a distance of shifting cloud shadows. I am still fiddling with this work, must stop.
500 x 2000 mm.

Freeze frame 2

This work recreates some memorable light effects I experienced outside Scott Base at 1 in the morning. The photos I took didn’t really do it (I often find bad photos make a good starting point for a painting).
300mm x1500 mm

Freeze Frame 3

This currently looks like a collapsed Pavlova. It is currently being made less distinct and hopefully more translucent. Watch this space

Freeze Frame 3a

Light effects …… If I only had time

The studio with the works under construction -- still tweaking.

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Katherine Joyce-Kellaway

Katherine uses trans-media in her practice, with video as a central media which she uses to explore sensory behaviour and its influence on our perceptions of reality. Her current work is focused on how fragmented sensory stimulation can translate into embodied knowledge, producing a deluded reality. The works aspires to generate visceral, bodily and immersive experience for the viewer. Katherine is currently completing a Masters of Fine Art at Massey University in 2012, where she is also tutoring.

Tony Kellaway

Tony Kellaway has been a photographer concerned with the built environment for over thirty years.

Tony has undertaken a number of significant projects over his career including a survey of disappearing New Zealand cinema’s in the 1980’s. This was supported by a major Arts Council of New Zealand (CNZ) grant. He has received major commissions to record significant New Zealand sites such as Parliamentary buildings, Old Government buildings and the recently restored Old Supreme Court. These bodies of work recorded and interpreted the transformation of these sites.

Tony is well known for his definitive guide to the ‘Old Buildings of Wellington’ in collaboration with David Kernohan, Professor of Architecture at Victoria University.

His work is held in a number of major collections such as Te Papa and the National Library of New Zealand. His work is also in private collections both in New Zealand and Europe.