Mahinapua Creek

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By Robyn Litchfield
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

81 × 66 × 2 cm

Materials:

oil on linen

Primary Medium:

Oil Painting

Medium
2018
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Drawing from archival photographs and personal documents relating to the early exploration and colonisation of New Zealand, Robyn Litchfield reimagines and examines the experience of those early forays into a hitherto unknown space. Her paintings envisage how sublime encounters with places; pristine and untouched might induce a transitory state and encourage contemplation and self-reflexivity. Litchfield uses landscape as a ubiquitous template for exploring her personal history, notions of cultural identity and alienation. Wilderness can be seen as a transitional liminal space inducing disorientation and dissolution of order whilst offering an opportunity for reconfiguring our subjectivity and a reimagining of possibilities. Processes such as scraping into the paint, layering and erasure reference the destructive and constructive nature of being in a state of liminality. An alluring luminosity projects through the monochrome images of dense forest. Elements extracted from the documents of primeval landscapes intrude into the space. For Litchfield they are haunting symbols of loss and longing; for past lives left behind, the dispossessed and the primeval forest. This layer of amorphous red shapes acts like a semiotic screen casting its shadow on the gaze. Through the uncanny layering and the juxtaposition of images, the viewer is encouraged to form their own associations and interpretations of the work whilst engaging with the otherness of landscape through paint.

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