Paint on a canvas
We recently caught up with an awesome artist friend of ours, Rebecca Wallis, who was in town during Art Week. She was exhibiting some of her new work at the Asia Contemporary Art Show – and we couldn’t wait to see it. What has always drawn us to love Rebecca’s work, is her ability to tell the story of her inspiration. The pieces she was exhibiting were from a series called Scratchings.
Although we’ve always believed that we have art-appreciation bones in our bodies, and could make interpretations of what was happening in her paintings – after reading the story of her works, in her own words, it was like they exploded with new meaning. We were in love. We now have her work hanging in our homes and office.
About Scratchings, in the words of Rebecca Wallis
In constructing these works I’ve considered a formal equality where each and every part of the painting is visually acknowledged, where the unseen becomes seen.
The works refer to ideas about the accident or incident from which stems their titles - an acknowledgement of the process of the making itself. They can be seen as a documentation of accidents, those moments that are unaccounted for, those gaps between intention and purposefulness that happen naturally no matter how much control we attempt to maintain within the practice as an artist. So rather than focus only on that which is within our control, my work is intended to take everything into account - that which we plan or are purposeful about as well as all those interim incidents that occur whether we want them to or not. Unlike traditional paintings, the back, sides, stretcher bars, edges and front - as well as every point of the creative act from start to finish - are equally significant and integral to appreciating the work as a whole. Everything is equal, nothing is prioritised, no moment is ignored.