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ONLINE EXHIBITIONIn the Spirit of Renewal
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| ARTIST’S STATEMENT "Art at its best is made in the god-blessed present moment (that place where children play) and yet it has the potential to be fed by everything that has gone before. My studio work is informed by both outer and inner landscapes. Making it is a process of integrating past with present… of making what is invisible, visible. These works reflect a deep affection for the landscape in which I live, a landscape made richer by its man-made objects in their various states of decay". Helen Seligman Helen Seligman lives and works in a rural setting in Central Victoria. She has a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Latrobe University and was selected to represent Australia’s emerging artists at the International Works on Paper Fair in Sydney in 2001. She conducts master-classes in printmaking from her self-built mud-brick studio in Barkers Creek. Her work takes a traditionally two-dimensional medium into the third dimension. These works begin as collagraphs and are inked and rolled through the etching press in the usual way. The flat paper is then made wet again and moulded onto corrugated iron… and like iron, it is strengthened by the corrugating process, rendering it remarkably strong and resilient. Yet there is something about the solidity of iron and the fragility of paper which creates a sense of ambiguity in these works. They speak of the extraordinariness of everyday objects, they tell stories… evoke histories. These are works both on and of paper and their whispered meanings hang between surface and form. All works are made from 100% cotton, hand-made paper. Artist"s Biography>> |
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