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Josh Foley

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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW variety of viewpoints , that you combine together into a coherent balance . We would suggest to our readers to visit http :// joshfoley . com . au in order to get a synoptic view of your work : in the meanwhile , would you like to tell to our readers something about your process and set up ? In particular , would you tell our readers something about the evolution of your style ?
Over a period of years after finishing art school , I underwent a series of transformations with my work and was experimentally constantly with the ground of my practice . From 2007 , this started to stabilise somewhat and my interests became more condensed . Now , although engaging in a experimental practice , the locus of these endevours and innovations revolves around a more distinct nebulus – that of parametric painting , investigation of relief space and the materialty of painting .
For this special edition of LandEscape we have selected P1010073 and P1010067 , a couple of interesting works that our readers have already started to admire in the introductory pages of this article . What has at once captured our attention of your insightful investigation about the conventions of western painting is the way you provided the visual results of your analysis with autonomous aesthetics : while walking our readers through the genesis of these paintings , would you shed light to your main sources of inspiration ?
There is a place nearby to where I live , in Launceston , Tasmania , called the cataract gorge . I have mined this area frequently for inspiration and subject matter not only for its proximity to me but for the specific visual qualites it presents . Namely , the cliff faces in relationship to the river below provide a perfect vehicle to make paintings about illusory surface and releif space . The two works you mentioned , were based on chunks of this area but were produced using slightly different technical approaches . P1010073 was focused more on describing form through line and P1010067 was about the depection of the same space focusing more on gradients . The titles are the names the camera gave the respective reference images for the works .
Can you talk about the surface of your works and how you approach light and generate the luminosity that pervades your canvass ?
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