Gallery

ARTIST STATEMENT-2008

Since 2002, I have combined the use of landscape to express ideas about time and place with concepts of examining and using motif in the landscape to prompt memory or feelings of a place.
artist staement 2002
I have started to take the motif out of its topographical landscape and combine it with colour, surface, texture and drawing, producing a personal account of place both real and imagined.  This ambivalence and open-endedness invites the viewer to form their own personal associations. Ultimately, once the narrative has been confronted I want to be able to show the viewer paintings that are intended to be ‘beautiful’ with the subject matter always secondary in importance.

ARTIST STATEMENT  -2011

My work investigates the idea of creating animated portraits of places, landscapes and environments and our relationship to them.
The films explore the ordinary and mundane, capturing light, shadow
and time .The rotation of the planet and the climatic conditions direct
the action and determine outcomes. The process of making these films
is stop motion, capturing the images one at a time.

The spaces between the individual privileged instances are abstract time not constrained by the mechanical process of the cinematic camera (and the uniformity of time that this imposes).

In my films the spaces between frames are variable, created at the time of shooting, this produces an ambiguous temporality when projected at
25 frames per second.

The films capture imperceptible events showing what the eye does not always see or have the patience to recognize. The work is about the feeling of the place and it’s relationship to the
environment and not directly about the function or previous function
of the building or space.

The resulting work finds the ethereal magical beauty of the intimate spaces not immediately apparent and only discoverable over a prolonged period of looking and recording one frame at a time, capturing and re examining the temporality of the unseen experience.

All the work on this website is for sale (unless otherwise stated).  For a complete list of prices please contact Peter Symons.