The world around us is filled with shapes and colours, some more intricate and harder to discern than others. In the dense and colour-rich spaces we inhabit, it is important to allow art to extract light and space—revealing abstract colour and form—sharpening and shifting our focus. It is in this format, that artist Evie Adasal says art can shape “our visual and emotional experience of space”.
It is at the intersection of nature and human intervention, seen through urban planning and plant design found in public gardens and spaces, that Adasal explores a form of collaboration between us and the environment. “My practice is grounded in abstraction, drawing on spatial design and the structure of cultivated landscapes.”
Inviting viewers to reflect on the diversity of colour (light or dark), space (unlimited or confined) and shapes (abstract or material), and how these dynamic aspects found within art and nature give us an emotional response.
View in pictures, a journey through the natural world through light and space.
Evie Adasal, Bennelong Point, synthetic polymer on poly cotton, 130 x 120 cm. Photographer: Docqment.
Evie Adasal, Palace Rose Garden, synthetic polymer on poly cotton, 120 x 130 cm. Photographer: Docqment.
Evie Adasal, Ode to Sunset, synthetic polymer on poly cotton, 130x 140 cm. Photographer: Docqment.
Evie Adasal,The Space Between, synthetic polymer on poly cotton, 140 x 130 cm. Photographer: Docqment.
Evie Adasal, Roses are Red, synthetic polymer on poly cotton, 130 x 140 cm. Photographer: Docqment.
Light and Space
Evie Adasal
The Garden Gallery
On now—3 August
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