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Artist Exhibitions:
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
RECENT JOURNEYS: from Vietnam
to the digital surface
30 July - 15 August 2008
Heritage Hill Museum...
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Artist Statement for David Trout
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ARTWORK: Digital art, Painting, Drawing, Collage and Video
RECENT JOURNEYS: from Vietnam to the digital surface
This exhibition explores the nature of ‘surface’ as part of understanding the visual world. Whilst traveling I am conscious of the difficulties in penetrating the surface of an unfamiliar culture and equally, how rewarding it is to reveal and capture a glimpse of something new, even if not fully understood.
As an artist, the journey with the self is no less hard to understand. To penetrate who one really is, to go beyond the surface of one’s being has as it’s consequence a glimpse of what one might call ‘truth’.
As an artist and a traveler, I am confronted with moments or fragments of a ‘landscape’ that is both mental and metaphorical. The space I find myself after a journey when one confronts the accepted familiar, is for a moment an experience of innocence, as if seeing one’s home for the first time, one is a foreigner in one’s own garden.
The journeys I take as traveler and as artist weave what is an essentially symbiotic relationship. This exhibition explores both digital photography, digital imaging and mixed media on canvas.
PAINTING:
Standing in front of Gerhard Richter's abstract painting "Juni", at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, I was reminded by what Richter had written in the Documenta 8 catalogue in 1982, that we should not consider colour alone as the purpose of painting, but "instead allow ourselves to see the unseeable".
My painting is concerned with the notion of representation through abstraction. The concern for colour and composition encapsulates a given moment, experience or memory. It is perhaps this notion of memory that fuses reality with abstraction. The freedom to use colour and gesture emotively, allows me to say more about perception, than if I used "representation". It is as if through movement,sound, colours already abstracted in memory that I am able to convey the real.. a reality, as in the work of Richter, that puts into question our sense of the real and the abstract.
COMPUTER IMAGING: CONVERSATIONS WITH EVE: Concerned with abstraction and the representation of the painterly through the use of the computer.
2007 Malaysia ...artist in residency
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Studio: Argyle Studios, Port Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
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