Janine explores light and shadow
Visual artist Janine Davidson is hosting her latest exhibition entitled ‘Into The Gravelly Ground’ at the Mermaid Arts Centre.
Opening on Thursday, June 8, at 6 p.m., the exhibition runs until Saturday, July 8.
Janine’s practice incorporates sculpture, installation, video and photography and her work is characterised by an interest in projection, framing and screening through a consideration of the language of optics and seeing.
Her current body of work observes where artificial and natural worlds collide in an investigation of subterranean landscapes. She explores the manifestation of convergence through the projection and distortion of imagery to present a different view. Her work is a transformative process that forms connections between the visible and invisible, the erasure and disclosure, the familiar and the unknown.
Janine employs various mediums including sculpture, installation, video and printmaking. Having recently completed a FIne Art Masters researching the archaeology of optical devices, her interests focus on visual perception, its fluidity and the construction of images. Incorporating everyday physical structures found in the man made environment that both simultaneously obstruct and direct the viewer’s gaze.
The changing contours of memory are of interest to Janine, amplified by both contest and sense of place. Her work draws our attention to what we look at versus what we see, what memories we retain and what we discard, what is obscured and what is laid bare. In her work we are invited to explore the gradations and balance of both illumination and shadows.