Wendy Stavrianos -Mt Gaspard

Wendy Stavrianos, Works from Mt. Gaspard Studios: 'TheGathering Room (The Metaphysical Room in the Landscape Series)'
May 31 - Jun 28 2014, Opening Saturday May 31st 2-4pm

THE GATHERING ROOM (The Metaphysical Room in the Landscape Series)

I have become the Gatherer of Images, of the real and imagined landscape from journeys across Australia and beyond. These collected images are strung out like beads on a string: an image-map of time, past and present. What is observed in place and time is joined to an internal landscape, a ‘Metaphysical Edge,’ between one reality and another.

The Gathering Room can be read like a poem, where an essence of memory is captured and held within the picture plane; like a musical score set in a certain key.

The presence of objects and their power to seduce us: the human images that haunt our inner landscape are gathered into my shearing shed studio, where often the extreme seasons of summer, winter and spring and climate change, exerts its influence on the work.

To live in this country is to be in the most extreme of climates, from the ice to melting heat and years of drought with little rain. All this beauty of the dry landscape, the pale straw hills and winters of frost and mist are gathered in with the struggle to reconcile opposites and to deal with the visual poetry of wonder in ever changing weather patterns.

Wendy Stavrianos,
May 2014