by admin | Oct 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
This arresting painting presents as its subject the most vital of all our organs, the heart. How strange and wonderful to behold the heart as if it were some kind of topographical landscape. We look down upon it as if it were an atoll isolated in the darkest sea. The...
by admin | Oct 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Lyric poetry is by its very nature elegiac – we write about what is in fact is already slipping away from us” – Paul Mariani Mariani’s statement might equally be applied to Melissa Coote’s paintings 8 for her works carry the...
by admin | Sep 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Melissa Coote’s work invites both intimacy and distance. A demanding and intricate technique produces pieces of large and compelling presence, unrelenting in their detail, contemplative in their relation to the subject matter. The work does not dictate to the...
by admin | Sep 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
She came from Australia to Paris ten years ago. She does big drawings in charcoal, ink and wash. At first they were of large faces, faces without any resemblance to a particular person, not in the least imaginable as portraits – just anonymous faces that look out at...
by admin | Sep 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards, at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,...
by admin | Sep 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Kristeva in her book, “The Feminine and the Sacred” explores the creative potential of the unconscious in the work of two female artists. I identify this potential as a primary drive in my work. Kristeva speaks of the unconscious as something of an...
