Looking Up and Looking Down

Looking Up and Looking Down is an exhibition of mixed media abstract paintings. Fairhall and Chetcuti draw forth ‘memoryscapes’, as the inner thoughts and emotions related to the world around us. Both artists are concerned with visual perception and pictorial framing in their approaches to painting.

According to the artists, “The window presents a conceptual dichotomy through which the painting subject can either be internalised or externalised; meaning the viewer’s vantage point is set from the ‘inside’ or the ‘outside’ of a window frame.” They ask, “What do we see when we gaze through a window?” The outside, or the reflected view of our own faces and the interior of the room?