Painting: repeat

Painting: repeat

Opening Night 24TH September 2008, 6–8pm.

Mori Gallery
168 Day St. SYDNEY

Exhibition continues until Sat 11th November 08

Gallery open Wednesday – Saturday 11am–6pm (or by appointment)
Ph. +61 292 83 29 03

Artist Statement, August 2008

My studio practice is an exploration into the contemporary expanded field of painting: at the fore, practice led painting research. I create works that employ repetitive action, and in turn I engage a meditative process in the making of artworks. These paintings trace the time and act of creating the artworks and, consequentially, the artwork becomes an abstract form of diary of the creative experience completed by artist for the viewer to further contemplate.
A fusion exists in the paintings created: in the attention paid to the appearance, form and means of presentation of the formal aesthetic detail of works, meaning an engagement with the art theory and practice of the abstract painters of New York from the 1950s to now. This art historic consideration also blends the acts of 1960s and 70s Australian, American, and European conceptual artists: questioning elements of the definition of the studio term painting. This formal artistic practice and consideration for the conceptual activity of artist occurs alongside an exploration into the creative meditative experience of any artist, with particular consideration for my own practice as an Australian painter following after a rich history of landscape, romantic, Aboriginal, modern and contemporary Australian painters.

Artist Bio, August 2008

Meredith Frances Lynch is a Sydney based artist. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design, USA as well as receiving First Class Honours and a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts. In 2007, two publications to her credit include an essay published by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts: ‘Practice Based Learning: Learning through Doing’; as well as an artist profile featured in the Art Almanac, July. The University of Sydney Union awarded Lynch first place in the annual arts and literature prize for the abstract painting category and Lynch also spoke on a panel at The Arts Research Symposium at Edith Cowan University, Perth in 2007. In 2008 Lynch has curated one exhibition: ‘The Surface of Painting’ at Horus and Deloris Contemporary Art, Sydney. This year will also see the Master of Visual Arts awarded for the project entitled ‘Embodied Meanings: The Possibilities of Narrative for Abstract Art’; as well as a solo exhibition at Mori Gallery, Sydney. In July 2008 she will also have an essay published in the International Journal for the Arts (Birmingham Art and Design Institute, UK). Still to come this year: Lynch will take up placement as a Bundanon Artist in Residence as well as being exhibited as a finalist for the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship.