MAY 17 - JUNE 2, 2013
4 Artists from 4 different countries:
Janine Whitling (Australia) Eunika Rogers (USA) Jacqui Chapman (England) Anca Danila (Ireland)
White Canvas Gallery, 26 Church street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD 4006
Ph: 0412 641 487. www.whitecanvas.tv
Exhibition dates: Thursday 16 MAY – Sunday 2 JUNE 2013
Official opening 6pm Friday, 17 May 2013
Gallery hours 10am – 6pm Wednesday to Friday 9am – 4pm Saturday & Sunday
White Canvas is pleased to present I am … a premier group exhibition of new work by MOSAIC Artists International Collective which was founded by four international contemporary artists.
MOSAIC presents a series of artworks that explore the notion of self-identity.
All of these artists are émigrés, and to greater or lesser extent this influences their interpretation of self-identity which manifests in each artist’s individual content. It is interesting to note the contrast in approach. Jacqui Chapman’s abstract landscape painting questions the significance of homeland in shaping identity. Janine Whitling’s art is about the inner soul where geography, culture and religious have no true influence and in its place asks metaphysical questions about the true state of the inner being. Eunika Roger’s paints figurative portraits using clay pigments she finds on hikes around Memphis. These are fragile pieces that explore the personal within the passage of time. Anca Danila’s fleshy paintings deal with childhood obesity in beautifully manipulated figurative paintings where she takes a psychoanalytical perspective.
“I am interested in landscapes both familiar and foreign and through a personal dialogue in art explore the relationship in us between identity and territory. Recent paintings are about British landscapes which concentrate on the sensorial aspects of these places. These are places of personal refuge, free space, within a claustrophobic urban environment. Here contradictions occur, being both a public and private place. ” Jacqui Chapman, born in South Africa, immigrated to England, age 33.
“Today the work I produce is influenced by my own on-going personal development. Who I am and how I fit into the the world are some of the questions I have searched for answers to. This unfolds into art works that incorporate philosophy on our origins of existence, belonging within society and the ever eternal quest for self-identity.” Janine Whitling, born in Beirut, immigrated to Australia, age 5.
“My work is rotted in nature and the female body. I search for ways to explore how each change with time, often focusing on a spiritual and physical connection with the land. I use nature as my inspiration for the process and the medium I use in my art work – I paint with clay.” Eunika Stevula Rogers, born in Slovakia, emigrated to Canada age 12 and then USA aged 19.
“I think that through painting my own self comes out and I mirror myself into my paintings. I believe that an artist cannot lie when he is creating because his art is a true expression of his self. The media I am working on is oil on canvas and I prefer to express my ideas through figurative painting. In my artworks one can see the same child, my brother. He inspires me every day and he brings me back to those moments of innocence but not only, also to the moments where a person starts building his or her own character at a juvenile age.” Anca- Georgina Danila, born Romania, immigrated to Ireland, age 31.
The exhibition tour:
Brisbane, Australia, May 2013
Memphis, USA, Feb 2014
Liverpool, UK, July 2014
Dublin, Ireland Nov 2014
For more information contact Janine via the contact page
