Living Light ~ a Solo Exhibition By Hannah Walsh

Living Light is a solo exhibition by Pōneke based artist Hannah Walsh.
Living Light showcases a long evolving exploration of intuition and creative surrender. Devoid of any preconception or intention, the works explore techniques of immediacy and automatism, drawing upon the creative agency of the subconscious.

Through this enquiry, the paintings surface as fields of ethereal space, movement, and matter. Their visual language makes shape of the invisible, immaterial, introspective worlds we live in. Within these worlds, scale is rendered meaningless, and space is rendered infinite.

Walsh's works feature repetitive marks woven between layers of colour and texture. The marks are born from moments of intuitive freedom, tracing instinct and the liberating absence of reason. They ebb and flow and scratch and orbit, over and under and through.
The nature of these marks resonates with the speed, force and volatility of our natural environment;

As mist hovers, drifts, distorts
fire sparks, radiates, breathes
thunder pulses, surges, illuminates
light traces, dapples, awakens

While it counters the nature of these paintings to be fully defined, viewers are invited to ponder their depths, edges and energies, in a hope they inspire new ways of seeing.

Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street, Te Aro
6-11 June - Open 9.30am - 5pm
Opening Evening, 6th June 5pm