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Emily Hartley-Skudder Tableware at Suite Gallery
Emily
Hartley-Skudder
Tableware
Join
us to celebrate the exhibition opening
5.30 - 7.30pm
Thursday 1 August
Exhibition closes Saturday 24
August
Image: Bubble-time Vanitas with French Horn, 2013, Oil on calico, 188 x 285 mm
A still life is most commonly understood as a representation of a themed arrangement of ordinary, often domestic, material objects. This convention of still life is pervasive, having travelled a trajectory through time - from the once dark Vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries through to kitschy, colourful home styling manuals, cookbooks and wall-fillers of the 20th.
Hartley-Skudder playfully re-presents the tradition, rendering the familiar strangely artificial. Beginning with tiny replicas, her objects are transferred through the medium of photography before being solidified in paint: a process that explores our visual perceptions of the real, and draws attention to our ongoing preoccupation to recreate aspects of the everyday.
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