Adventurous Lines: Sally Hughes, Timothy Leatigaga

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Lion - Sally Hughes

‘Adventurous Lines’ a show of new works by Sally Hughes also showing Timothy Leatigaga, Linda Barrow and Susan Allwood

29th March – 14th April

Opening Thursday 29th April at 5.30pm

Sally Hughes is a painter of and with physicality. An expressionist mark maker, she works her surfaces with varied drawing media to create life size animals which stare out challenging the viewer to blink. She says;

“It’s about the animal and it’s about mark making and feeling the animal. Although it is representative it’s not about realism but rather about feeling the animal. I’m looking for a gut reaction, a way of feeling the work in your body, a physical effect. It’s not just about seeing, it’s about seeing and feeling at the same time. Because I do the work life size, the size of the animal relates directly to our body size.”

When you are in a room of these works, you enter the world of the animal. Rather than passively sitting to be looked at, the look out at you and refuse to be ‘prettied up’. Avoiding sentimentality, these are active subjects, cats which might bite back……..

“Men and animals are in your care. How precious O God is your constant love.”
Psalm 36, Verse 6 & 7

Whimlar Flow - Timothy Leatigaga

Timothy Lea. Matagi – Art Inventor

Timothy uses ball point pen to fill whole sheets of paper with intricately detailed line. He has developed his own visual language which he terms ‘Rainbow Immersion’;

“I start by adding every single item which exists in the universe from marbles to people and then try to picturise it in the smallest area possible.”

From the start of the drawing of the person the object is drawn with one line. Each stroke of the pen is one movement, a single sketching which moves from side to side and top to bottom across the page. The effect of the work which uses multiple lines to describe multiple subjects is of an optical illusion, where multi-coloured figures and images emerge from an intricate tangle of lines.

Also showing in ‘Adventurous Lines’ are Linda Barrow and Susan Allwood. Barrow is a Wellington artist while Allwood is a visiting artist from Western Australia. They are both exploring the qualities of ink in contrast with pen lines in beautiful abstractions. Barrow presents new works on paper while Allwood works on hanging silk pieces.

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