SPACE TIME OASIS DADA DATAISM

During winter, Zoe’s usual studio – situated in an Orchard – becomes rather uninhabitable. To continue her painting over the winter months Zoe temporarily relocated her practice to old Design and Technology classroom at Frensham, where she is Artist-in-Residence.

Here Zoe traded the whitewashed tongue-in-groove floor boards, windows framed with creeping ivy and view of clouds-dappled hills of her Orchard studio… for an institutional, modernist, light filled heated space, ten times the size!

Approached by a commercial client, Servcorp, to create a ‘suite of streamlined paintings’ for their new Barangaroo premises, Zoe decided to create a sequence of paintings that were influenced by her new surroundings, books and film. These influences were diverse, and included ‘The fountainhead’ by Anyn Rand; ‘Chrome Yellow’ by Aldous Huxley; ‘Playtime’ by Jacques Tati; Several Lectures on architecture by Glenn Murcutt; and an article on ‘The era of Dataism’.

“The imagery just fell onto the canvas – a fifties graphic modernist city.
The future is perfect, but humans are not, so therefore the future will thankfully never, be too shiny, too new or too perfect…”

Various narratives can be read into the works, setting the stage for the viewer to imagine and explore their own ideas about the future and modernity.

This current showing of Zoe’s work at Saint Cloche Gallery will be comprised of a collection of very limited edition signed prints from this collection of works.