Julian Meagher, Echo #2, 2022
Marisa Purcell and Julian Meagher will present 4 large scale paintings that are embedded with sound. In collaboration with composer Max Lyandvert, the paintings will serve as conduits for sound - the linen substrate providing the material to transmit the score.
The visual composition of the 4 paintings serve as the score to the musical composition - integrating what we see and what we hear and how we hear it.
This exhibition presents a conversation between the aural and the visual, inviting visitors to feel the connections that exist in our perception.
The essential tone of a colour, and its emotional resonance Marisa Purcell’s primary motivation. In its essence, painting can saturate the viewer with a connective feeling- one that bypasses the verbal and acts as a mirror. In her practice, she uses multi-layered surfaces which change depending on the viewing angle. Marisa has developed a distinctive language of abstraction which calls to mind the way our perception functions and invites the viewer to become aware of the act of looking. The compositions convey a sensation of warped space, revealing her interest in perception. There is a dynamic tension in Marisa’s paintings between amorphous floating fields of colour and the veiled edges they sit upon.
Julian Meagher’s pared back romantically charged colour fields, landscapes and portraits take us both inwards into altered states of mind as well as outwards into space and time. His works evoke a sense of the sublime, capturing ephemeral and ever-changing moments that sit between reality and dreamscapes, encapsulating his larger hopes for nature, his family and the future. Neither one nor the other, Meagher’s paintings collapse the divide between genres.