Wood block artist unknown Melissa Nolan McDougall
Pattern In Art
Sally Douglas Louis
Moncrieff John Cullinane Melissa Nolan McDougall Jurek Wybraniec Juxtaposed Unknown
approximately one-hundred-year-old woodblock prints from Japan
Now exhibiting at 2 Dogs Art Space Akashi are woodblock
prints (most likely originating in the period of the Japanese Emperor Showa, being from 1926 - 1989) by unknown Japanese artists, that I bought
from an antique shop in Kyoto, juxtaposed to these aforementioned prints are artworks by contemporary
Western Australian Artists Sally Douglas, Louis Moncrieff, John Cullinane, Melissa Nolan McDougall and Jurek Wybraniec .
Pattern in art and how it exhibits itself through studio praxis
has an extraordinarily long history within the art and crafts, the many galleries
and museums stand testament to that idea, for human beings have been creating patterns
not only to adorn themselves (clothes and jewelleries) but on everyday utensils throughout the antiquities of aesthetics, no
matter what race, creed or civilization they belonged too.
Aesthetic designs with its endless flow of patterns now and in
past times is always interesting to view, it often opens up more questions than
it answers, why did people create such patterns, what was the meaning of the colour
with the design etc ….
What kind of strange phenomena within human memory
creates such designs all this I have few answers for, its an enormous field of
study. But in viewing human created
patterns it does create the first common
stand point for the viewer to find out for themselves, so please enjoy the
unity and diversity of differing artist's aesthetics within this show from the
Sister States being Hyogo Prefecture, Japan and Western Australia thank you .
Wood block artist unknown John Cullinane
Wood block artist unknown Sally Douglas
Wood block artist unknown Jurek Wybraniec
Wood block artist unknown Louis Moncrieff
Exhibition at 2 Dogs Art Space
