PEOPLE and PLACES EXHIBITION
WORKS EXHIBITED BY ALISON PARKINSON and ALAN LEISHMAN
BACKSPACE GALLERY, 15 Camp Street Ballarat
11th - 28th July 2019
Alison Parkinson Artist Statement
I am the 'People'
Over the past year I have painted portraits of forty- nine people catching a moment of their life.
Most of my work is derived from life and in that instant, I differ, as the catching of a moment can be laborious if posed.
These portraits are oil sketches rather than considered portraits: wanting the instantaneous feeling of the portrait to be alive and to breath off the canvas. This body of work is displayed as an installation to enhance our differences and diversities as the patchwork of people meet at the edges.
Two sculptures are also including in the exhibition.
Nadia in Porcelain is wearing a sterling silver necklace, demonstrating one of my newfound loves, making Jewellery.
Caito is created out of Stoneware and is hung with an expanded drawing from life, I used as the reference for the modelling in the clay bust. I hope this exhibition reflects my diversity of modalities and my passion for capturing Life.
Alison Parkinson
I am the 'People'
Over the past year I have painted portraits of forty- nine people catching a moment of their life.
Most of my work is derived from life and in that instant, I differ, as the catching of a moment can be laborious if posed.
These portraits are oil sketches rather than considered portraits: wanting the instantaneous feeling of the portrait to be alive and to breath off the canvas. This body of work is displayed as an installation to enhance our differences and diversities as the patchwork of people meet at the edges.
Two sculptures are also including in the exhibition.
Nadia in Porcelain is wearing a sterling silver necklace, demonstrating one of my newfound loves, making Jewellery.
Caito is created out of Stoneware and is hung with an expanded drawing from life, I used as the reference for the modelling in the clay bust. I hope this exhibition reflects my diversity of modalities and my passion for capturing Life.
Alison Parkinson
