Figure in the urban landscape, solo show at Robin Gibson Gallery 2008
These etchings and paintings were created between 2007 and 2008. The work explores the figure in the urban landscape depicting vernacular scenes from my everyday life. The characters perform mundane rituals of urban life, in transit, having lunch or simply waiting. Not only does the landscape define us, we also play and important role in defining the landscape that we inhabit.
Tina Barahanos
An Ordinary Day
An Ordinary Day developed from observations of people moving through the city and the temporary spaces created by everyday travel. The works focus on fleeting encounters between strangers whose separate journeys briefly overlap through the shared routine of transit.
Digital Prints
These works began with photographs taken from a car window while travelling alongside a moving train. I was drawn to the passengers absorbed in their own journeys — people I knew nothing about, yet briefly felt connected to through the shared experience of being in transit. Fragments from different photographs were digitally combined to bring separate moments together within a single image. 2016 -2017
Softground Etchings
The softground etchings focus on ordinary moments observed while people wait for a train — going home, reading the news, a mother and child, a conversation. Seen indirectly through reflections in the train window, these small, everyday moments are partially obscured and layered, capturing brief glimpses of people absorbed in the familiar routine of waiting. 2016 -2017
