This body of work revolves around architecture within the urban landscape of Western Australia. Using a play on light and shade together with the use of shifting perspectives it explores the concepts of illusion, reality, time and space within the interior and exterior (facades) of architecture.
Influenced by surrealist artist Dali's reapresentational technique in creating near-photographic dreamlike images which make the impossible seem possible. The playful nature of this work is to encourage the viewer to consider well known sites in a new light and with a new perspective. The painting 'Timeless Barracks Arch' (Perth) shows emphasis on strong complimentary colours of blue and orange. The changing of light and shade influenced by the reflection on the water, together with a repositioning of a familiar object the floating clock (London court Clock-Perth) an imaginary time is viewed.
Art, culture and architecture are likened to hidden treasures forgotten by time. By referencing historical images I have endeavoured to bring the past into the present. In the painting 'The Astor Theatre', Charlie Chaplin revisits from the past to the present facade of Art Deco style of architecture from the 1920's (ie a facade with a facade) where an imaginary time is played.
As coloured perspectives change through light and shade, shifting object and viewing different perspectives together with historical referencing it continues to follow a new time, a new space and finally into a new surrealism.
Ann Hart
