NEWS_
Poiesis Exhibition by Anne Edmonds_
Date 10th November 2008
Tags event, national, exhibition, NSW
The exhibition Poiesis by Anne Edmonds responds visually to the new in concepts of ‘light optics’. The ancient Greeks used the word ‘optics’ for the look of light and ‘poiesis’ for the making of poetry.
Large–scale, pencilled drawings on French, Lana paper allow the viewer to engage with the nature of light and how it can be affected. Shape is used to define and reflect the changes in direction of light as it passes from one transparent shape to another.
The sensitivity of pencilled drawing produces a velvety, muted tone to the abstract shapes, in contrast to scattered negative spaces. The effect of this ‘absence’, allows light to pass through to the paper and reflect back causing the eyes to momentarily adjust before the image slowly emerges from the surface.
Perhaps what will remain with the viewer from this sensory experience is poiesis, the breath of something new, complete in the simplicity of drawing.
ANNE EDMONDS
Poiesis
Sara Roney Gallery
EXHIBITION, 26 November - 20 December
104 Glenmore Rd Paddington, NSW 2021 AUSTRALIA.
open Wednesday to Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm or by appt.
