STILL LIFES
2016
Turner Galleries
Perth WA
STILL LIFES
Gary Dufour 'Some Thoughts on Sine MacPherson: Still Lifes'
My interests lie in colour, the descriptive languages of visual phenomena, and visual systems.
The Still Lifes are found subjects, ready mades, already mades – I don’t make things up. I usually find my subjects close to home: my painting apron, dictionaries, reproductions, newspapers, field guides.
I found the subjects for Still Lifes on the Albany Highway. I had looked at them in passing, for years, but in 2010 I had a driver willing to slow down, turn around and wait while I took photos. It was hot, there were bugs, there were cars passing just meters away at 110, but great flowers – great artificial flowers already arranged.
So I find something interesting and figure out how I can paint it because I want to see how it will look. My style is always determined by the subject. The Still Lifes are painted from photographs, cropped to the flowers, and painted by the colour. The titles are a name, an inscription, or a location to the nearest town or crossroad.
Roadside crosses were originally intended as warning signs, a visual system signalling danger – a stark system now shrouded in the colour of still lifes
2016
Turner Galleries
Perth WA
STILL LIFES
Gary Dufour 'Some Thoughts on Sine MacPherson: Still Lifes'
My interests lie in colour, the descriptive languages of visual phenomena, and visual systems.
The Still Lifes are found subjects, ready mades, already mades – I don’t make things up. I usually find my subjects close to home: my painting apron, dictionaries, reproductions, newspapers, field guides.
I found the subjects for Still Lifes on the Albany Highway. I had looked at them in passing, for years, but in 2010 I had a driver willing to slow down, turn around and wait while I took photos. It was hot, there were bugs, there were cars passing just meters away at 110, but great flowers – great artificial flowers already arranged.
So I find something interesting and figure out how I can paint it because I want to see how it will look. My style is always determined by the subject. The Still Lifes are painted from photographs, cropped to the flowers, and painted by the colour. The titles are a name, an inscription, or a location to the nearest town or crossroad.
Roadside crosses were originally intended as warning signs, a visual system signalling danger – a stark system now shrouded in the colour of still lifes