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Zipper Landscape, Richard Morris
Zipper Landscape, Richard Morris
Richard Morris
Zipper Landscape is a thin horizontal delineation of painted fragments constituting a striking similarity to a horizon line view of the landscape. This linear configuration is dependent upon two key elements. The first is the numerous pieces of painted plywood components constituting the horizontal format, and secondly, the thick impasto butyl rubber extrusions in the form of painted lines which inhabit approximately four of the components. The collective effect of both elements, is the palpable depiction of a distant landscape typography. Unlike Tony Cragg’s assemblages mentioned above, Zipper Landscape is more dependent upon the traditional notion of a painted line …
Puff, Richard Morris
Puff, Richard Morris
Richard Morris
Sculpture 27 is a group exhibition which has been curated by Robin Gibson from the Robin Gibson Gallery. The primary focus of the exhibition is sculptural works by the gallery artists, and invited artists both Australian and International. Sculpture continues to play an important role in Australian art, as can be seen in the regular inclusion of sculpture in curated exhibitions at MOCA and the AGNSW, and NGA to name a few. The work Puff which I contributed to the exhibition is an assemblage made largely of painted plywood panels, and incorporated found objects.
Hover, Richard Morris
Hover, Richard Morris
Richard Morris
The painting Hover in the exhibition Well Red, was formed by deconstructing pre-painted panels, into rectilinear modular units which were re-assembled to form the works’ final configuration. This methodology for constructing paintings involves discreet stages of production beginning with the painting of panels in enamels and oils prior to cutting them into smaller rectilinear components with a table saw and a guillotine. These rectilinear components are then assembled into configurations indebted to the new relationships and tensions amongst the works’ component parts. By utilising the compositional opportunities afforded by a horizontal grid, along with painterly variations inherent in the panels …
Bower, Richard Morris
Bower, Richard Morris
Richard Morris
The work Bower which Richard Morris exhibited in Sculpture 28 is an assemblage made largely of painted wooden panels, and remnants of domestic furniture. There is a distinct relationship between the blue perimeter of the work, and the yellow oval form in the upper RHS, which play on the enclosed form of a literal Bower bird nest. The juxtaposition of a reductive palette plays a significant role in the work, creating a distinct asymmetrical compositional tension between the use of metallic blue, and yellow. Bower has both a figurative reference to a vertically oriented Bower bird nest, and a reference …