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
Roadside — Digital Prints and Paintings
Roadside considers landscape as it is experienced in transit, where movement, duration and fleeting observation alter what is seen. From the car window, the landscape shifts between recognition and abstraction; forms stretch and dissolve, light intensifies, and familiar surroundings can momentarily appear unfamiliar.
Photography, digital media and painting operate alongside one another, each informing the development of the other. The immediacy of the photographic image captures what might otherwise disappear, while painting provides a way of returning to and working through these encounters. Ideas move between processes — colour, movement, atmosphere and composition carrying from one medium into another — allowing the same experience of landscape to be reconsidered through different forms.
Developed from 2016 onwards across digital prints, photography, lightbox works and painting. Selected works have been exhibited at Sydney Contemporary 2023 and included in national art prizes.
