Watt Space Art Gallery
Newcastle NSW November 2024
Instant eternity
The 2024 graduation exhibition, Instant eternity, celebrated and acknowledged the work of 3 artists - Sandy Sanderson, Emily Lloyd, and Anne Grant. It marked the completion of their Bachelor of Creative Practice Visual Art degree program at Newcastle Art School.
Anne’s contribution to Instant eternity revealed the progression of her creative practice over 2 years. The exhibition included 13 works on paper and 10 sculptural elements. The work was inspired by an investigation of her place in the natural world and observations of moments in time. Drawing on her background in drafting and transferring printmaking skills to blind embossing, she explored minimalism and abstraction using the simplest of shapes – a circle, square and triangle.
The body of work offered new insight into our relationship with the landscape and divergent ways of seeing. The interplay between the works on paper and sculptural elements are described as expanded drawing.
Exploring spatial relationships and perspective, the work is informed by Anne’s background in drafting and her interest in map-making traditions.
Using the formal compositional elements of repetition, contrast, balance, and perspective this minimal abstract approach developed into a satisfying visual language that narrated her her response to the natural world.
The considered placement in the gallery of the 2D and 3D elements allowed simultaneous observation, clarifying the premise of expanded drawing and divergent ways of seeing. The exhibition’s theme of observing moments in time connects with the present-day emphasis on mindfulness and the appreciation of fleeting experiences. Integral notions of mapping, place-making, geometry, spatial relationships, expanded drawing and divergent ways of seeing speak to a contemporary audience’s interest in new perspectives.
