Post 3 - Relevant Reading
I have many books on the go - I need to look more than read at the moment… examples below of texts I have read recently and used in context for my own work.
Sarah Davis MFA exploration of her relationship with the land.
Shara Hughes
Land into Landscape by Sarah Davis MFA dissertation Whitecliffe (Davis explores her relationship to the land in Aotearoa )
Shara Hughes by Gesine Borcherdt, Isabelle Grae, Barry Schwabsky, Eric Troncy, pub. DCV Books, 2021 (quotes masculine tradition in landscape painting “deliberately and unabashedly.”1
So Much Longing in So Little Space -The art of Edvard Munch by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Landscapes - John Berger on Art
Edvard Munch - In Dialogue texts by Dieter Buchhart, Antonia Hoerschelmann, and Klaus Albrecht Schroder
Jenny Saville - Oxyrhynchus (her depictions of fracture and disruption of the figure become a landscape in and of themselves.)
One common theme I can see in my paintings is the figure embedded in the landscape and it is something I am interested in pursuing in the future. (see cover photo for my work ‘Colonialists Daughter’)
For now it is enough to be concentrating on the history of landscape painting in the Western tradition and how this can be reinterpreted for future work as well as explored in abstract painting.
Cecily Brown
The themes and obsessions she has have run along similar paths to my own, her love of Abstract Expressionists and their methods, especially de Kooning, and her delving into art historical references. Like her, some of my earliest memories related to art are of looking at Breughel and Bosch for a long time as a child. As Brown puts it, “wanting to look at one hour of hell and 30 seconds of heaven”2
Her freedom of expression and refusal to let the eye rest is very daring and interesting.
1. Galerie Eva
2. Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cecily-brown-met-museum-art-history-references-2277258
Katie White, March 31, 2023
