Saffron Newey : Menagerie

Saffron Newey Menagerie 1– 25 November 2017

Menagerie

Menagerie features a gathering of Romantic motifs and vignettes, remixed and filtered via contemporary digital aesthetics.

Classic examples of Romantic painting from the 19th century have been sourced online, colourised, collaged and resampled in graphics software and repainted by hand in this series. It represents an ongoing conversation between the past and present in which information gets skewed.

The works, oil on canvas and hand etched drawings all revisit the tropes of the Romantic sublime – the epic seas, skies, flora and fauna of the Enlightenment period.

Masters of the sublime painterly tradition feature as homaged samples among the works – a George Stubbs bull, a Hans Gude Mountain, even the Australian Louis Buvelot is represented among many other nods to the Romantic era.

Animals float as apparitions, clouds and waves glow in neon pink. This confluence of past tradition and futuristic vision contemplates our perception of time.

Saffron Newey Saffron Newey is a visual artist living and practicing in Melbourne. She is currently finishing a PhD project in Fine Art by APA scholarship at RMIT University, where she also teaches painting and digital art.

Her practice has revolved around the themes of painting and its relationship to other image making technologies (photographs, lens technology, digital art, the Internet) for most of her artistic career.

Newey has been a finalist in the Paddington art Prize, and twice in the John Leslie Prize for landscape.

Her work is held in various private and public collections.

The Foundling Oil on cotton rag Framed under glass 35 x 35cm $1,800

The Singularity Oil on cotton rag Framed under glass 35 x 55cm $2,200

The meeting (2017) Oil on canvas 19 x 25 cm $1,500

The hound of New Holland (after Stubbs) (2017) Oil on Canvas 19 x 25 cm $

The Singularity II (2017) oil on canvas 30.5 x 51 cm $2,500

Blind Spot 1(2017) oil on board 16 x 10 cm $550

Blind Spot II (2017) oil on board 16 x 10 cm $550

The Return Voyage of the Kongouro (2017) oil on canvas 30 x 40 cm $2,200

Future Phantom (2017) oil on canvas 25 x 30 cm $2,000

Blind Spot 3 (2017) oil on canvas 51 x 30.5 cm $2,500

Nocturne 1 (2017) oil on canvas 30.5 x 51 cm $2,500

Nocturne II (2017) oil on canvas 30.5 x 51 cm $

Lunar Sea (2017) oil on canvas 92 x 70 cm $3,500

Cape Shark (2017) oil on canvas 30 x 40 cm $2,200

Cloud Vignette (2017) Etched ink on Clayboard Mounted in neon pink Perspex 20 x 20 x 5 cm $1,500

Deep Sea Vignette (2017) Etched ink on Clayboard Mounted in neon pink Perspex 20 x 20 x 5 cm $1,500

Bovine Vignette (2017) Etched ink on Clayboard Mounted in neon pink Perspex 20 x 20 x 5 cm $1,500

Equine Vignette (2017) Etched ink on Clayboard Mounted in neon pink Perspex 20 x 20 x 5 cm $1,500

Meeting Vignette (2017) Etched ink on Clayboard Mounted in neon pink Perspex 20 x 20 x 5 cm $1,500

Squall Vignette (2017) Etched ink on Clayboard Mounted in neon pink Perspex 20 x 20 x 5 cm $1,500

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