Touch Sense: Group Show

Angela Mezzatesta

Caitlin Rigby

Michelle Yuan Fitz-Gerald

Susan Peters Nampitjin

Uma Christensen

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Five artists each with their own particular approach explore a sensory world.

Sensing an experience and a language of the felt inner world that is too often dismissed in the present cerebral egocentric society.

Each artist exhibiting, through an array of media, touches the senses to evoke a phenomenal reality of physical bodies and the various communication these forms have with our environment.

These artworks draw us away from the usual often phonetically spelt out narratives and move the viewer to moments quite moving in sensory experience.

Angela Mezzatesta paints and stains her canvas to allude to tears, placement and layers delicately creating varying translucencies, revealing deep spacious passages through a ragged edge that conjures references that travel through both inner and outer sensory landscapes.

Caitlin Rigby’s atmospheric paintings evoke both a sense of our inner and outer world. The soft flow of her skillfully meandering brush and fluid paint bleed in and out of the surface and we open up to a feeling of being in our meditations or dreams, feeling memories of time, space and place.

Michelle Yuan Fitz-Gerald renders with the sparkle of graphite, ones self submerged in a pool, facing up towards a reflection. The figure is a being floating, suspended in water. Changing the sensory experience being away from gravity and air. Its drawn with accurate observation. The reflection above the floating body is entwined in the broken surface and becomes enmeshed with the light, its shadows and the moving liquid in a pool.

Susan Peters Nampitjin explores fabric and weaving both constructing and deconstructing. She uses soft pastel colours and draws symbols and references to being in the natural environment through an array of media, expressing the deep connections she feels to the natural environment. Shapes and natural structures of hills, cliffs, mountains, water, grasses, claypans and sandhills.

Uma Christensen's installation drapes a softly dyed sheet stitching folds that draw the skin in to form a scape of an inner and outer body. The artwork references a poem she wrote that explores the many ways we can sense. Repetition of meaning and material; vegetable and fruit skins are imbued in the creation of the works, revealing themes of decay. The physical offering of yellow provides a visceral response, materialising the tactility and olfactory elements of the poem.

Please may we invite you to put down your screen visit cb0ne Gallery, open up your senses and let these evocative artworks touch you.