LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Josh Foley
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Artist Josh Foley ' s work challenges the haptic expectations and bodily position of the audience. His works give way to a trompe l’ oeil visual effect, one that simultaneously excites and soothes any viewer, to create perfectly balanced abstract pieces. One of the most impressive aspects of Foley ' s work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to disrupt the usual relationships that someone viewing a painting has to create a schism within their mind and in turn the corporeal reality they are situated in. We are very pleased to introduce our readers to his multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Josh and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training and you hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Art( Hons), that you received from the University of Tasmania. How do your studies influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
The degree I undertook gave me a comprehensive understanding of the parameters of and underpinnings of contemporary art and knowledge about the birth of modernism – which have been invalauble for exploring my own ideas. Aesthetic“ problems” are the core of what I’ m interested in but also how they relate to material matters and how the physical and the intellectual intertwine and affect each other.
Your approach is very personal and your technique condenses a
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