Art
Lamina: An Exhibition by Artist Ros Paton
Ros Paton is a talented and awarded artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. She is interested in the inevitable decline and fall of the built environment, and how architectural order dissolves into ruin.
Ros exhibits her works regularly in Brisbane and throughout Australia, with one of her exhibitions in a Brisbane gallery selling out within an hour of opening.
She has also held acclaimed and successful solo exhibitions in Italy and Belgium. She has travelled to UK to prepare works for her next solo exhibition to be held with Grant Bradley Gallery in Bristol, UK September 2015.
Her works have been hung in prestige exhibitions such as the Portia Geach Memorial Award in the S.H. Ervin Gallery (Sydney), the Heritage Art Prize at Blaxland Gallery (Sydney), Von Bertouch's Collectors Choice in Newcastle (Australia). Ros is currently represented in the Clayton Utz art prize (Brisbane), and most recently she has been awarded the winner of the St Andrews memorial Hospital ANZAC art prize
At a glance…. Ros Paton is a talented and awarded artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. She is interested in the inevitable decline and fall of the built environment, and how architectural order dissolves into ruin.
Ros exhibits her works regularly in Brisbane and throughout Australia, with one of her exhibitions in a Brisbane gallery selling out within an hour of opening. She has also held acclaimed and successful solo exhibitions in Italy and Belgium. She has travelled to UK to prepare works for her next solo exhibition to be held with Grant Bradley Gallery in Bristol, UK September 2015. Her works have been hung in prestige exhibitions such as the Portia Geach Memorial Award in the S.H. Ervin Gallery (Sydney), the Heritage Art Prize at Blaxland Gallery (Sydney), Von Bertouch’s Collectors Choice in Newcastle (Australia).
Ros is currently represented in the Clayton Utz art prize (Brisbane), and most recently she has been awarded the winner of the St Andrews memorial Hospital ANZAC art prize
I explore how revealing the impermanence of our constructions can act as metaphor for the fragility of our human existence.
I am intrigued by the poignancy and strange beauty that emerge as the palimpsest of familiar layers in our built environment disintegrates.
By painting notions our surroundings in various degrees of transience, I can talk about the vanishing nature of materiality and that nothing lasts forever, nothing is really finished, and nothing is ever perfect.
I notice the patina of age on the discarded, the everyday and the mundane, looking at the wear and tear, weeds and detritus in the crevices in the chipped and worn surfaces we walk that reflect a time, place and us
I ask about the natural cycle of growth then decay, and its correlation to the world we inhabit on a daily basis, finding beauty in things that are imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.
My work is not about the triumph of nature, but an intermediate moment, a fragile equilibrium between persistence and decay, stability and disarray.
I want to linger in that short space of time and place that sits between a past and a future, and then is gone
I aim to imbue my artwork with something deeper than a clever depiction of image, and invite contemplation on the ephemeral nature of our surroundings, beauty and our own lives.
- Ros Paton
E-Mail: ros@justlaughing.com.au
Facebook: facebook.com.au/ros.paton
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first exhibited at Michel Sourgnes Gallery, Ascot queensland 2009
"There's no beauty without poignancy, and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going. The
scars of time are the scars of life" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
derelict series: 2009 -current
Derelict is inspired by an old derelict Queenlander house waiting for demolition.This series was first exhibited as a solo exhibition at Michel Sourgnes Gallery in Ascot (Brisbane, QLD)
Works: ants, bob, brave pansy, down pipe, feature wall, garden mosaic, going down, guttering, impatience, jeff, leaves in the loungeroom, Maggie, percy, picket fence, sleep out, tv room
on exhibition at rydges capital hill hotel, forrest, ACT
Works: bitten, hole in the wall, ikea kitchen, kitchen cupboard, power point presentation, rust, twist wall
First exhibited at Bruce Watling Gallery, Newfarm, queensland 2006
"While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome
falls, the world shall fall." Venerable Bede, c. 673-735. The Momenti Mori series was first exhibited in a solo exhibition at Bruce Watling Galleries, Brisbane, 2006
Works: Built to break, cityscape 1 – 4, corner, crunch, exterminate, hole, mmmm, nip, reac, scoop, scratch, still life, surgery, wall
First exhibited at Gallery 912, Wooloongabba, Queensland – 1993 D 9 series
"All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls in ruins": Ovid, 43 BC - 17
D 9 series was first exhibited in a solo exhibition at Gallery 912 Brisbane. All 20 works sold within the first hour of the opening night.
Works:After the earthquake, butcher, butcher close up, cathedral square, hale street 1-3, paradise hotel, studio 1 demolition, studio 2, studio 2 close up, tidy up 1 – 2, workers club, workers clup close up
