Philippa Graff

Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Using gestural mark making, I construct space comprised of windows and doorways, screen and veils, that pinch and pull the eye, backwards and forwards in-depth and across the surface. The coloured and tonal elements become surfaces for the delineation of the local indigenous and other plant life, that offers the promise of regeneration and sustainability.

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Work

INDIGENOUS AND OTHER PLANT LIFE – 2020

– represents a sold painting

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TODAY

TODAY

600 x 500mm

Oil on canvas

2020


TOMORROW

TOMORROW

600 x 500mm

Oil on canvas

2020


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The abstract nature of the work is significant since it honours the modernist ethos of universality and timelessness. Despite the fact that separate panels constitute the work, there is a unified whole in the work, through the orchestration of colour and tone.

Indeed, each facet has a unique personality and tells its own story, yet the sum of the parts are integrated into one.

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