I loved you yesterday | Fiona Lowry

  • Fiona Lowry, study for apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, 2010
  • Fiona Lowry, for you I have lived and for you I will die, 2009
  • Fiona Lowry, the truth has no patterns for me tonight, 2010
  • Fiona Lowry, step out of a triangle into striped light, 2010
  • Fiona Lowry, I’m anywhere tonight, 2010
  • Fiona Lowry, I could tell you what I saw in you, 2010
  • Fiona Lowry, I loved you yesterday, 2010

I loved you yesterday
15 April - 01 May 2010

"This is part of the paradox of her work – it is as much about formal qualities and beauty as it is about the evocation of impending doom or unease. Indeed there is a seductive weightlessness to the effervescent application of paint that belies the paintings’ thornier content…..the viewer’s vision shudders across the surface: the point of focus staggered over the painting, denying a single point of perspective and a conventional reading of foreground and background. Here, the historical specificities associated with the term landscape slide into the paradigm of place, a broad concept accommodating also nuance and imperceptibility. In the place of Lowry’s pictures narrative is subverted and the optical field oscillates, infused with a melancholy air that is often erotically charged.”

 

Natasha Bullock, Wilderness, Balnaves contemporary: painting cataolgue, Art Gallery of New South Wales