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.

Let 'that' memory go

"This is the laughing Buddha! When they see that which was unreal this laughter comes"

“…Ultimately, it is freedom from even the concept of freedom.

It is the end of striving. We put all our attention, all our efforts,

into becoming the best someone we can be. That is natural, that is

the whole story of mankind. But it is not freedom.

By all means live the highest expression you can. Changing what you feel

does not serve your freedom; follow your heart’s promptings,

but do not take the expression to be a definition of the Self.

Enjoy, with gratitude, your life – as a gift from Life, as an expression

of God, as the dance of the cosmos – while remaining throughout

as the formless seer. The Sage looks into a mirror at the pictures

appearing as himself, but he is not confused.

He remains the unalterable Being into the shrine of emptiness.”

- Mooji ‘Before I Am’

'Transition' 2008

by K.Madsen-Pietsch

Etching (zinc plate) 2008

Original fine art prints (limited edition of 33), are available for sale.

Media: Oil-based etching ink on 300 rag paper.

Plate Size: 245 × 195.

Various Print on Demand formats can be found online at

my RedBubble gallery

This universal symbolic image (my personal logo) embodies a summation of several areas in my creative artwork practice over the many years and relative to inner/outer transitory awareness. The intricate pattern/organic design stems from my exposure to observing and drawing inspiration from nature’s designs of natural tropical rainforest and beach environments, textile designing and printmaking; the vessel form from making both ceramic and fibre banana receptacles.

The symbolism develops, comes with continual exploration, new perceptual, intuitive and spiritual awareness in and from one’s art practice.

• Symbolism: The body, a vessel, for containment of thoughts/desires, upside down – reflection/duality; openings, channels, passages act for giving/receiving, positive action/change, inner/outer transit, pathways/directions; movement, transition; the leaf as a transporter, carrier of dreams, aspirations; parallels, mythical/psychic, reality/illusion, inner/outer, boundaries, earth/nature, spirit/matter; juxtaposition relational awareness – visible/invisible, negative/positive spatial elements, forces, energies; balance, fusion, action, change, harmony, flow, interconnection, growth, life, submersion.