Vessel Scape

Vessel Scape is a subtle minimalist abstract artwork in mixed media.
This is my work entry in the 'Hidden Treasures', annual fundraiser Postcard Show, Cairns Regional Gallery, Dec.2nd - 11th. 2011. All exhibiting diptych format Postcard works are sold by the Silent Auction process.
(Bids to close 2.30pm for 3pm Auction Sunday 11th Dec.)

Continuing on with my vessel theme for this annual event, the work investigates spatial and ethereal qualities, relationships between physical and non-physical realms, spaces between, states of stillness and an in-between knowing.

Vessel Scape - Diptych: 2 (8×6inches).

Medium: pastel, charcoal, gesso, ink; 

 Support: Arches 300gsm rag paper,
MDF board backing support.

POEM
Notions/thoughts -  
Oft times we linger
In that space
Between
Neither here, nor there
Nor anywhere really
Sitting quietly, meditating
Not striving, just arriving
Being here and now
With presence of
An awareness
Of a life-giving breath
Of spirit
Being

In a physical world

There is a strong sense
Of the sublime
In the inner quiet
In the calmness 
Of spatial
The ethereal
- Qualities of floating
Delicate
Light
Spaciousness

Consciousness/light
Traces
Physical contour markings
Over implied grid coordinates
Passages
Meeting points
Connections
Relationships
Inferred
In time/distance
Traveled
Touched

Spaces between
Stillness,
Knowing-ness
Presence
In spaces between.

 ©Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch

All rights reserved

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Vessel Scape by K.Madsen-Pietsch
Card print @ Redbubble 

• A wide selection range of *Vessel Scape print products are available at my RedBubble Gallery store. 

Vessel Scape by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
Tote Bag
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Vessel Scape by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
Framed example
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*Edited/Updated
~ 4.12.2011
~ 1.09.2014
~ 6 Feb. 2018

Remnants of Presence

A Retrospective Blog

 

'Visible Traces', one of several works completed for the curated group exhibition Remnants of Presence, was shown at the new Sugarama Gallery, Australia Sugar Industry Museum, Mourilyan ( just south of Innisfail), Far North Queensland, 4 May - 29 June 2003.

This professional curated group exhibition, 12 months in the making, was a grand showcase of 19 artists work from the Innisfail, Mission Beach and Tully region.

Visible Traces

Artwork is a triptych of mixed media on canvas and is currently held in the artist's collection.  Overall size: H.122 cm x W.170 cm 

Mediums used: charcoal, pastel, gesso, watercolour, acrylic, oil, collage, leaves, fabric, papers – rice paper, cartridge,  300 gsm rag paper. 

Further information about the work and the exhibition can be found on my home website.

Print products have been made available for this artwork at my RedBubble gallery here

Centre Panel 

Visible Traces - centre panel

 My RedBubble Gallery link to online prints of this artwork.

The work includes 'embossed' textured rice paper I printed and was collaged in several areas (mainly bottom and right hand side areas) on the centre panel.

Preview Publication

A preview article was published in the Arts Nexus magazine about Remnants of Presence. 

Publication 2003 RoP_p12.Arts Nexus.No.50

Non-digital documentation records of photos and a video do exist of this very successful exhibition but most of these have yet to see their conversion into relevant digital media production forms.  

Here is a 'small' image I have to hand on file, taken on the opening day.  The work in the foreground is titled 'Treasure Trove', an sculptural installation completed by yours truly with a collaboration involvement from all participating RoP artists, with each supplying representative 'personal' object pieces.

 

 Thanks for visiting.

Fairweather Man

Woohoo.

Last night I was immediately attracted to a facebook friend's post which simply went like this -
"I paint, dammit!" Ian Fairweather

After I read the follow up discussions with reference being made to Ian Fairweather's life and 'hypocritical' friends in some documentary, I just had to ask was there anywhere one could get this, if available.

And sure enough, as I suspected, the answer I got references back to the link on my blog post made July 27, 2009. ABC has now apparently produced a DVD of the TV documentary. Yeah!

So after ordering the product online last night, along with the amazing Shannon Lush's new book 'Stainless', I now (patiently) await 1-2 weeks for delivery of the goods.

Artwork:  Interconnected.  Mixed media on A0 size paper.
Work sold. In Private Collection - Brisbane.

Beach Infuences - Landmarks

'Pathway of Journeys'

'Pathway of Journeys' is an earlier work and finally it's debut for 'Print on Demand' status at my Red Bubble gallery site http://artropica.redbubble.com/works

Work details

• Mixed media – acrylic, charcoal, collage, montage – wood, sticks, shells, seedpods, string, fabric, paper, own photo imagery used from my temporary sculpture installation work at Brampston Beach, Queensland.
• Support – plyboard.
• Size 600×1200 x 30mm.
• Created for the group exhibition ‘Landmarks’, Innisfail Art Space.
• Origianl work has sold and is in a private collection Innisfail, Qld.

You can read further comments about this and other work at my RedBubble community site

• Prints online of 'Pathway of Journeys' @ http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/4057438-1-pathway-of-journeys

Group Challenges on Red Bubble

Layered with Texture - Challenge: Extreme Mixed Media

The work Spiritual Journey was entered into a Red Bubble Group Challenge. The RB group set the challenge of Extreme Mixed Media.  (Click on this link and you can view a total of 14 entries along with the challenge criteria and the final voting results.)

Spiritual Journey by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2006

Materials: Mixed media - acrylic, pastel, fabric, linen thread, leaf, butterfly wing, banana fibre, paper.

Canvas support. Size: 8 x 6 inches.

Techniques: painting, drawing, collage, coiling and stitching, basketry assemblage.

The original work sold through one of the end of year fundraising Cairns Regional Gallery Postcard Exhibitions. Usually up to 100 selected regional artists are invited to exhibit in the show each year.

For those not familiar with the RB group set up, there is both an entry and voting time schedule put on each of the challenges by a volunteer group host. Those with the most votes usually get a feature on the group's front page and runners up, in the top 10, are listed and displayed on the challenge page.
*Note, an artist cannot vote for their own work and there are other codes of fair conduct to be respected by all those on the RB site.


It is a wonderful way to get artists involved, actively thinking about and displaying their 'best' work in various groups and for other community members too, to get involved, meeting and connecting with others.


Another artwork Sanguine Nude was entered into the Challenge - 2 Colours with Works on Paper group. This one had a much larger total number of 58 works entered.

Sanguine Nude

Medium:  Gesso, sanguine pastel on Arches 300gsm rag paper

Size: 76×56 cm (30×22”)

Description: Worked directly from a life model in my studio gallery, this work combines both drawing and painting skills. I have a love/passion for embellishing, building up a surface with both actual and implied textural qualities.

Also Sanguine Nude earned a Monthly June feature at the home page of the group Life Session Expressions. This was achieved by being voted in the 'top ten' of a challenge for 'No. Favouritings' - see here.


It is indeed a pleasure, after many years of solitary art practice in an isolated regional rural community in Far North Queensland, to have the tools and to be able to be involved in marketing oneself directly via the internet, to show work that would otherwise probably never be seen except by a select few.

Thanks for visiting.