"Skyline"
Heather McCormack

An Exhibition Of and About the Granite Boulder Country
Just out of Lancefield, you can make a journey up the Tooborac Road into a wonderful and unique landscape, this is Granite Boulder Country.
Ancient forces have cast and shaped the forms that dominate this landscape and the quirkiness of nature leaves them in unexpected poses: balanced, clustered or scattered, on horizons, or in valleys. Massive, smooth rocks contrasting the twisted and gnarled branches about them: sometimes with dramatic breaks or angular pieces, often balancing, sometimes precariously, always beautiful.
They leave the viewer with the impression of agelessness and weight on a massive scale and a feeling of peace and stability amongst this often wild and windswept landscape.
"Skyline" attempts to record some of this landscape. The exhibition combines drawing and oil painting to bring some of this stark and dramatic beauty and, hopefully, some of its presence and feeling, into the gallery.

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“Interface”

Gemma Nightingale

While making art, whether painting, drawing or sculpture I have become aware that I am continuously working at the interface of opposing surfaces.
In two dimensional (2D) art, ie drawing and painting, the interface defines areas and in three dimensional (3D) art, ie sculpture, the interface tends to have volumetric characteristics.
In painting an artist may work to reproduce the effect of the light playing around the edge of a sunlit doorway, the edge losing its definition in the shimmering of light. Is the hard edge of the door surrendering something of itself to the atmosphere or is it the sunlit air eating into the solid edge of the door?
But the concept of the interface extends beyond this. The interface is the edge or corner where two or three bodies or planes meet. The interface is a zone of contact between objects, where exchange of information and awareness of the other occurs.
The interface may be metaphysical: the interface between life and death, sanity and madness, between body and spirit. The interface certainly may be physical: between solid and liquid and gas. The interface can be the zone where the cell surface meets the interstitial space, and neuro-transmitters bridge the gap between cells. The interface can transcend human ken in time and space.
The interface is the site where interesting things happen and where variation is more apparent. Far from being a limiting, defining or static edge, the interface represents a dynamic relationship: it is a site of activity and exchange, plastic, ebbing and flowing; a point of communication, a dance of give and take.
It may be as simple as a depiction of the line where the forest meets the plain, or it may be as elusive as the concept of the meeting point of minds.
In this exhibition, I have focused more closely on the activity of exploring and depicting such "Interface"s.