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Samara ADAMSON-PINCZEWSKI, Far-flung (detail) 2012, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 183 cm.
professional advice from the Golden paint technicians, and am very responsive to exploring new ideas, materials, processes and techniques in my work”, she enthuses. “I will create a series of paintings on paper and canvas that experiment with the latest acrylic paint materials and technologies available, including a wide range of pigments, mediums and varnishes. I intend to focus on fluorescent colours, gels and pastes to further develop my work in creating scintillating optical effects. I anticipate that the unique chance to explore a different colour palette and cutting-edge surface textures will lead me to refine the sensation of movement, spatiality and theatricality I strive
for in my work. I aim to create the impression of disorientation that portends to feelings of uncertainty and fragmentation in everyday life”. • Langford 120, 120 Langford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, 3051: www.langford120.com.au • Artist site: www.sapart.com.au
Obscura Gallery is showing To the Surface (11 April–9 May, 2013) a capsule collection of ‘drowned’ works from photographer Meg Cowell which will no doubt evoke thoughts of Ophelia’s tragic demise; “Her clothes spread wide/And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up...Till that her garments, heavy with their drink/Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay/To muddy death”. >>