Fred Fowler Grey Noise
6 – 24 April 2021
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Fred Fowler
Grey noise (light), 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint, mika flakes and gold leaf on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm
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Fred Fowler
Grey noise (mid), 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint and gold leaf on wood panel, 100 x 90
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Fred Fowler
Grey noise (dark), 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint and gold leaf on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm
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Fred Fowler
Adrift and at peace, 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint and course alumina on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm
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Fred Fowler
Right where it belongs, 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm
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Fred Fowler
Forgotten history vibration, 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm
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Fred Fowler
Come down to us, 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint and mika flakes on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm
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Fred Fowler
Distant lights (Njulbitjik), 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint on wood panel, 80 x 70 cm
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Fred Fowler
The sea around us (Mer), 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint on wood panel, 80 x 70 cm
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Fred Fowler
Still right here, 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint and mika flakes on wood panel, 80 x 70 cm
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Fred Fowler
Beside you in time, 2020–21, synthetic polymer paint on wood panel, 150 x 120 cm
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These paintings are disjointed, emotional responses to the idea of place. Fragments of places, symbols floating in fields of seductive colour and texture. When I think of place I don’t see a clear picture, it’s more like elements of different places and feelings. Blurs of the bark that you touched at a picnic, how a lagoon looked under moonlight when wading through with a dolphin torch trying to catch prawns, the root that you stubbed your toe on coming back from the beach barefoot. What I’ve tried to capture in these pictures is more of a vibe than anything solid, defined or overly literal. It’s the feeling that these places bring up, there’s a potency to these places in our consciousness, and what I’m interested in is the emotion we attach to them.
Traditional landscapes are based the past, a snapshot of a place at a point in time. It’s an outdated way of working, hanging on to the past. What I’m trying to capture is the feeling that places evoke, the condition of now and the possibilities of what they could become. It’s a non-linear way of thinking about places and our connection to them.
– Fred Fowler, 2021