UAM Project Show

The University of Queensland Art Museum's 'Project Show' presents a mini 'survey' exhibition of the art practice of four very different Queensland and ex-Queensland artists - Catherine Brown, Denise Green, Sebastian Di Mauro and Tom Risley.

Catherine Brown’s work, ‘Turtle branching’ of 2005 was developed through an art residency she began in 2004 with The University of Queensland’s Centre for Plant Architecture Informatics (CPAI). Her work with the Centre has focussed on computer modelling of plant forms. Through looking at branching patterns in plants and some insect behaviour modelling, Catherine has developed an understanding of a three-dimensional computer environment. |

Denise Green’s monochromatic triptychs, titled, 'A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…', are intended to ‘memorialise my mother, a gardener, and her relationship to New Farm Park’. Moreover, as Green states, the way the ‘repetitive shapes [are] intertwined with each other is inspired my study of the writings of AK Ramanujan, a major Indian poet and linguist’. Denise Green grew up in Brisbane, studied in Paris and America, and lives and works in New York. Her works are represented in the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria. A selection of Denise Green’s writings is being published by Macmillan in 2005.

Sebastian Di Mauro’s works on display include the large flloorpiece, 'Interval', created from many sheets of carpet underlay, as if layers of skin have been cut away. 'Shimmer suite', developed from his ‘floccus’ series, transforms the materiality of commercial products—in this case steel wool—into poetic and organic forms. As Di Mauro says, ‘Humour is an important element in the work. … For me, art needs to relate directly to everyday life. The power of these sculptures lies in their ability to transport the viewer beyond the ordinary into something extraordinary.’ Sebastian Di Mauro was born in Innisfail and lives and works in Brisbane.

Tom Risley’s works in this exhibition span the period from 1997 to the present. They are from five distinct bodies of work and provide an insight into the evolution of process, materials and subject matter over that time. His work has incorporated such media as paint, ink and pastel, together with found material (as distinct from found objects). Recently, he has taken an interventionist approach: cutting, bending, punching holes and, through them, squeezing caulking compound and paint. His subject matter has continued to move between still life and landscape. Works on display include 'Still life 1 – 4' of 1997, 'Muttaburra landscape' of 1998, 'Ironbark Forest' and 'Porcupine Gorge/ghost gums' of 2003, and the examples of the recent ‘Flag’ series, a group of which are currently showing at Ray Hughes Gallery in Sydney. Tom Risley is based in far north Queensland.

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UAM Project Show

mit Catherine Brown, Denise Green, Sebastian Di Mauro, Tom Risley