ABSTRACTION

YAVA presents 13 Yarra Valley Artists working in 2 & 3D explore themes around abstract art with paint, photography, clay, and glass

In the time of Coronavirus, lives have become fragmented, interrupted and abstracted. To see clearly the way forward has become obscure. Instead we are forced to turn inwards, distil and abstract what is important, what is meaningful, what is the bare essence of our existence.

“Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect (ABSTRACT) art can or should be like music, in that just as music is patterns of sound, art’s effects should be created by pure patterns of form, colour and line”. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/abstract-art

Viewers unfamiliar with abstract art can often find it confronting and even jarring. Seeking to make sense or find the meaning in the work can be confusing. However if the viewer interacts with the painting in a different way, allowing the colours and forms to infuse our senses , we can travel through understanding on a different level. As the viewer engages with the colours and forms emotions arise; attraction, repulsion, serenity, anger, joy. How the reaction transpires, informs meaning. Abstract art requires a different way of seeing and indeed feeling and being.

Artists: Deanne Eccles, Jenny Davis, Jerry Osadczuk, Jo Carroll, John Christie, Laura Windmill, Lee Herath, Lynne McDowell, Michelle Payne, Robyn Henchel, Susanne Richards, Tania Chanter, Wilani van Wyk Smit