The Department of Art Postgraduate Student’s Exhibition.
Featuring works by Frances Blythe and Michael Wise the exhibition showcases the works of recent graduates from the Department of Art in the Faculty of Built Environment, Art & Design at Curtin University of Technology. Blythe's paintings are inspired by glimpses of materials/surfaces/objects seen ‘underfoot’ in the usual areas that she visits daily. Often these were glimpses of traces left behind: traces of watermarks, shadows, tracks, and thrown/abandoned objects. These are overlooked things that often evoke absence and act as reminders of the ephemeral nature of all things. The materiality of paint has been used as a response to the images found and as the starting point for an investigation into how the language of paint can be used to lead the viewer into the open possibilities of a painting. While Wise's work, the Book of Leaves, evolved from its original purpose of mass-producing artefacts for a future relational art project to an artwork in its own right that is based on a series of life symbols.
