From the Resene News – issue 3/2005

Freeform - Freeform paint skin artworks
Engaged in an investigation of work primarily concerned with the creation of paint skins to explore relationships between spontaneity, control and the body, Geraldine Plowright has created striking artworks of freeform paint.

The works specifically address the issue of paint as paint since the skins are removed from any support and exist as discrete objects. Projects have included a four metre long paint skin that was hung off the wall and draped onto the floor. Expanding the concept via her Elam School of Fine Arts studies, her current focus is on the relationships between these skins creating paint masses with the idea of many paint bodies making up one larger body.

At her side throughout this work has been Resene Enamacryl, waterborne gloss enamel providing 'a consistency that I have been unable to find in other brands'. 'Because of this my latest works have been comprised entirely of Resene paints expressing an excess of colour with an amazing gloss. I am excited by the prospect of extending this work further as the discovery of Resene paints has enabled me the freedom to engage in such investigations without being inhibited by technical difficulties.'

With paint normally applied onto a wall in a micron measured coat, Geraldine has discovered a colourful way of creating artworks unbounded by substrates and a guaranteed way to keep the Resene paint factory running through the sheer volume of paint required to create each work.

Artist: Geraldine Plowright

 
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