The 18th Century social commentator and historian, Thomas Carlyle, said, “It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.”
I have a long standing love of the Self Portrait: Still life paintings of Frances Hodgkins. She took items imbued with personal meaning and used them to create a portrait of herself – that doesn’t contain her actual visage. In this series of work, I have combined pictorial elements that express abstract and invisible ideas, with a focus on home, family and domesticity.
Using motif, colour and the common domestic materials, wallpaper and fabric, I have created a portrait.
The Printmaker
Ink on fabric
Surface and Symbol 1
Paint and ink on wallpaper
2400mm h x 1500mm w
Surface and Symbol 2
Paint and Ink on Wallpaper
2400mm h x 1500mm w
rachaelgannaway@paradise.net.nz
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