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Artist Exhibitions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Galleries:
My fisrt exhibition was held
at The Charles Smith Gallery
(Website –
www.charlessmithgallery.com.au)
. The media release for this
is shown below.
The owner, Janet Le Goode, has
been very helpful to me as a
first time artist, and can be
approached for any contact or
sales details. Some ...
Further Information
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Ildiko Faska
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Artists Statement.
This year I want to concentrate on ‘pulling together’ all the work that I churned out last year. I’m inspired very much by the beautiful Landscape that we have here in Australia. Small blurs of visions and ideas put together in a collage to form a story.
For example: - the texture of dried mud
- rain droplet’s on a greasy windscreen
- ice crystals on tree branches.
Nature is such a beautiful thing and the challenge that I am confronted with as an artist is to reproduce this beauty and exotic’s and to make it my own. Looking at it through my own eyes. Thinking of an image is easy, reproducing it and showing it to the public is not! Such Artists as Rosalie Gascoigne, Deborah Klein and Barbara Hanrahan inspire me.
Ms Gascoigne, because like me, she collects bits and pieces along the way and in her travels from the side of the road, at the beach and uses these pieces in her Art. Ms Klein because she uses Doilies in a very special way, that I think is absolutely marvellous.
After reading the attached article by Rosa Chapman I am reminded of my obsession with my mothers lacework and doilies.
Without destroying these precious pieces I wanted to use them in my work, not only to show their beauty but to get them out of the cupboard and up onto the wall for all to enjoy.
I very much like embossing as its clean, crisp and white – a side of me that does not emerge very often as I love getting dirty!. .It is also a very good way of seeing a pattern for what it is. To me it seems very mysterious and ghostly. Distant memories bought forward?
I am going to work in an A4 size because I usually love to do enormous works and have only this year started doing tiny-size pieces which has been fun – but for assessment I want to go somewhere in the middle. I really love thick paper and the thicker the better. 300 – 35-gsm is what I buy because of the cost and availability but if I could use thicker paper I would. My work has covered wood, lino, collagraph, monoprints, embossing and etching.
Collagraph is my very favourite along with embossing. I would like to do more lino and etching onto copper/zinc plated but an old injury in my arm prevents me from doing too much of this.
By the end of this year I will have two major bodies of work completed.
One will be 15 pieces to do with the Australian Landscape. Called ‘Dream On” This will include works from last year and this, being put together of form a story about how the seasons change. How this affects me, and the beauty I see around me the sadness and the loveliness.
The other work will be the 15 pieces that make up the book. But in my case this will be a box which will include work made up of a diary / journal dealing with issues to do with my mother’s death 2 years ago. My journey is sad so it will be hard but it is on that has to be travelled through necessity. I’m hoping much beauty will come from this painful experience and that the love in my heart will show in; the work that I produce.
I cannot show you the tears and the heartache that I feel in my heart, but I can show how this tragedy has affected me through my work. The bow will be called “Memories of my mother’.
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