| Antoinette
Ratcliffe : Surface Tension
Civic
Square, April 25th-26th 2004
Surface
Tension
is an attractive but ephemeral piece, the medium itself
dictating the length of display. Although the bubbles contained
within the Art Box appear curiously permanent, the usual
fleeting nature of the bubble is only suspended long enough
to draw out the anticipation of the inevitable. As tension
is released the bubbles dissolve, leaving a sticky trace
that marks a change from three to two dimensions. The result
is the subtle articulation of bounded and permeable space
while the bubbles echo the transparency of the transitory
Art Box, itself a bubble - for art.
From the artist's statement
Through
material investigation my working definition of space became
a series of surfaces in spatial relationship to one another.
Through observing the impact of the viewer on the materials
and the materials on the viewer, spatial relationships and
the volume among them became a fundamental component in
my working process. Volumes realised by temporal surfaces
create a space and these surfaces, which contain mass, interact
with each other to form places.
Antoinette
Ratcliffe is a Wellington artist, who recently graduated
from Waikato Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of
Media Arts Honours (first class). She has exhibited extensively
in Hamilton, with solo and group exhibitions held at Ramp
Gallery, the Syrup Room, 447, Euro Gallery, JBC and the
Waikato Museum of Art and History.
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