Liliane Spratt
Meriden School
RE-IMAGINED
Drawing
Cyanotype
My intent with my body of work was to connect the audience, the work and nature through visual ambiguity. Manipulating the process of cyanotype printing by introducing materials such as cleaning agents, oxides and dirt, I produced gestural prints and photographs that can be seen as abstracted topographical views of Australian landscapes. This gives the audience the power to add their own meaning and imagine their own landscape. Displaying both the cyanotype prints and photographs of the cyanotypes developing in the sun, I express the ever-changing nature of the cyanotype as a parallel with our ever-changing climate.
My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the artist Benjamin Björklund.
Marker's Commentary
Not only has the landscape been re-imagined in this poetic and subtle series of artworks but so has drawing been re-imagined through the use of the changes in the cyanotype processes used traditionally in photography. This work charts the natural changes in the aerial view of a landscape through the chemical changes in visual properties, as the work changes and evolves in response to sunlight. Subtle changes in the landscape are depicted in these simple and beautiful evocations. It is a lovely acknowledgement of how artists experiment with materials, take risks and also make changes to artistic convention. The simple elegance of the series of imagery belies the complexity of their creation and ultimate selection.