Meet the artist for drinks and nibbles
6pm Friday 15 January 2021
77 Art+Living, 77 Main Street, Fairlie, NZ.
https://www.77artandliving.com/artists
Pre-sales available via website from 14/01/21
Contact: artandliving77@icloud.com
This exhibition celebrates the joy of play and the moments that occur each day in childhood. Historically children have often been portrayed as little adults, as symbols of innocence or have been missing from art altogether. Here, we see children intent in their moments of play; their development of friendships; their mastery of skills. They are capable, focused and purposeful. These are not portraits of individual children but rather seek to draw our attention to the precious and fleeting moments that occur in the time that is childhood.
These paintings and prints were developed from a series of photos taken by the artist, of young children at kindergarten* as well as close family members*. Digital drawings were completed during our recent Covid-19 lockdown. Some were printed and others served as studies for the oil paintings.
*with permission from their parents.
I am delighted to let you know that you can now find my work for sale at 77 Art and Living gallery, 77 Main Street, Fairlie, NZ.
Pump Shed space and is an exploration of the physical and formal elements of the Seedling Pump Shed and its surroundings; the corrugated iron of the shed, coloured graffiti marks found around and the sapling trees whispering in the surrounds. Polson ‘paints’ in 3 dimensional space further exploring gesture and repeated action using thread rather than painted brush marks for an elaborate site-specific installation.
Rachael Polson - Artist 