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| 11-29 September 2012 |
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Using traditional media in unconventional ways, Melinda Schawel's process has given form to and ultimately defined the images. Attracted to the unpredictability inherent in this approach, papers collaged onto wood are sanded, ripped away, covered in ink washes, written on, and waxed.
'...I continue to build up the surface and push the boundaries of the medium by peeling, tearing and perforating the paper until it borders on the three dimensional. The process represents the challenges of being in transition, of being pulled in different directions, the feeling of occupying two or more spaces at once, of trying to maintain the delicate balance between control and unpredictability. Essentially, the mixed media works in Torn are experimental iterations driven by a love of materials and surfaces and the search to find the optimum point where ideas, technique and media come together.'
Melinda Schawel 2012
Melinda Schawel has been a practising artist for over 15 years. Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Geelong Regional Gallery, Royal Museum of Fine Art Antwerp (Belgium), and Artbank. |
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Your Own Way
ink, wax, and collaged and torn paper on board
120 x 140cm |
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Virtually placed Your Own
Way in situ (interior Greg Natale
Design) |
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Everyone's Gotta be Somewhere
ink, wax on torn paper
100 x 140cm (framed 112 x 153cm) |
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Everyone's Gotta be Somewhere
Example of artwork on 3.7m wall
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I'm Always Where I Need To Be
ink, wax on torn paper
100 x 140cm (framed 112 x 153cm) |
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I'm Always Where I Need To Be
Example of artwork on 3.7m wall |
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Where to End
ink, wax, and collaged and torn paper on board
100 x 120cm |
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Where to End installation view |
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From Little Things Big Things Grow
ink, wax on torn paper
(FRAMED)
100 x 100cm |
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Belinda's Lotus
ink on torn paper (FRAMED)
55 x 60cm |
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Please Don't Go
ink on torn paper (FRAMED)
55 x 60cm |
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Bird's Eye Few I
ink on torn paper
89 x 50cm
(framed 104 x 64cm) |
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Bird's Eye Few II
ink on torn paper
89 x 50cm
(framed 104 x 64cm) |
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Exhibition installation view |
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Sounding it Out
ink, wax, collaged and torn
paper on board
50 x 50cm |
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Sounding it Out side view |
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On the Way
ink, wax, and collaged and torn
paper on board
50 x 50cm |
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On the Way side view |
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Fleeting
ink, wax, and collaged and torn
paper on board
50 x 50cm |
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They Play
ink, wax, and collaged and torn
paper on board
50 x 50cm |
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Virtually placed Fleeting
& They Play in situ on
1.2m wall (interior
Greg Natale Design) |
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Another Day
ink, wax, and collaged
and torn paper on board
50 x 50cm |
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I'll Follow
ink, wax, and collaged
and torn paper on board
50 x 50cm |
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Another Day, and I'll Follow
in situ on 3.7m wall |
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