Title

Meg Buchanan: Vernacular landscape.

Venues

Beaver Galleries [2] (27 May 2004 – 14 June 2004)

Date

(2004)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Paintings; Drawings; Prints.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

About the exhibition

Well known Canberra artist Meg Buchanan uses a range of mediums to explore defined space and the figurative elements that dwell within it. It is possible to read the images as fractured landscapes, abstract signage or as portraiture. However interpreted, the limited field of vision and tight composition set up a tension between structure, “figure” and the viewer. In Meg Buchanan’s most recent work, the object of identity has shifted from the abstracted figure to the landscape. Her images employ a shallow pictorial space – a defined space that we inhabit; the vernacular rather than the sublime landscape. In a recent profile, critic Professor Sasha Grishin wrote: “the work suggests a preoccupation with questions of identity… something created or invented within a particular environment, the regional and the personal are of greater significance than the cosmopolitan and general.”

[Beaver Galleries media, 2004].

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04 Aug 2024