MARIE McMAHON
Zonation.
Until 18 July 2015
Marie
McMahon’s paintings are a kind of landscape. A reconstruction assembled from
observational notes that reduce the landscape to its component colours.
These colour ribbons describe afternoons
spent examining the rock ledges of Botany Bay that are exposed between the
tides, a zone, a zonation
that is littered with flotsam and jetsam not entirely sea or land. Here sponges,
pumice and ambiguous water-worn objects are strewn between rock-holes
reflecting the sky in hemispheres of water.
The romanticism
of Marie’s imagery is objectified in her paintings. They adopt a kind of
geometry that suggests cubism, which is the idea of painting that is simultaneously
a representation of something and the invention of a new reality on the
paintings surface.