Reviews on Inside Out Upside Down Gallery Site
Works by Cathy Lane, On the Edge
This exhibition unfortunately is already over, a small problem with the one week schedule exhibitions at the TAP. We poor reviewers have no time to see the exhibition and publish. This exhibition was so enlivening that I thought it would still be interesting to produce the review for those intersted in more positive art.
Cathy Lane produced these works from a trip in the Whit Sundays and as you can see from the result she enjoyed not just the trip but the process of recording it as well. The works are in a mixture of ink, pencil, watercolour, gouache and collage on paper. Beautifully framed and presented each work forms a complete work that could stand independently.
The tradition of perspective and spacial relationships has been largely ignored or distorted to produce intriguing work. While Lane compares them to Escher like representations, I find them to hold more in common with Japanese works, though delivered in a western line drawing style.
The use of materials is traditional within the format of the work and this provides us with an easily viewable work that gains interest from being outside the realm of the visually believable while being naturalistic at the individual object level.
I hope that we will see more of Cathy Lanes work on display, but for a longer exhibition period than was available at the TAP
.author: Neil Miley