Illusion

Exhibition runs Thursday 26 November to Saturday 5 December
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 9.30am to 5.00pm
Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra Technology Park, 49 Phillip Avenue, ACT

For local artist Joy McDonald, Canberra’s regimented plantings of street trees are form a bar-coded landscape. She has long been interested in exploring the patterns, rhythms and marks of nature in painted form, and has extended this interest to prints in her current exhibition.

In the exhibition, McDonald has abstracted the natural forms to a series of graphic units – the dot, the line, the stroke. With these simple coded units she uses technically simple stamping to build complex layers of colour, depth and movement. Moving away from representing the natural world in a literal form, McDonald uses the repetition of the small marks creates moving surfaces of colour which allude to energy fields, wave systems and other unseen patterns within the naturals world.

This is Joy McDonald’s seventh solo exhibition in the ACT.  Joy graduated from the ANU School of Art in 1994 majoring in Ceramics.  Since then she has worked in painting and ceramics, and now in print. Her work is featured the Craft ACT and ANCA websites.  She has works in the collections in Canberra, CMAG, and private collections interstate and overseas.