Susan Quinn, Shiny White Tiles IV, 2016, colour pigments in resin on acrylic sheet
EXHIBITION: Porous Bodies – Susan Quinn
24 October – 13 November, 2016 // Opening Sunday 23 October, 3 pm
The Little Gallery Project Space
Launceston-based visual artist, Susan Quinn’s work focuses on the human organism and the porous boundaries it shares with other bodies, systems and entities.
“Through my work I aim to express the human body’s fluid and fragile state” says Susan, “questioning if bodies are characterised by a porous quality that allows the outer world to flow through and beyond membranous boundaries.”
In this exhibition, Susan’s explores and develops the relationships between patterns formed in process-led art making based on visual data collected during her artist residency at the Launceston General Hospital’s Pathology Department. During the residency period Susan was exposed to microscopic human matter in a number of medical testing procedures and processes.
WORKSHOP: A Brush with Gold
Thursday 10 November, 6–8 pm
Devonport Regional Gallery
Join Susan Quinn for a hands-on, experimental visual arts workshop, learning one of the many techniques Susan utilises in her work: oxidising metal leaf. A Brush with Gold introduces metal leafing. Using gold, silver, and copper leaf, participants will experiment with the material to reveal colourful effects of oxidation. Effects on metal leaf can be used as backgrounds to paintings or as the painting itself.
Devonport Regional Gallery HERE
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