SARAH FORDYCE

Evening spread against my eyes (2019), Yarra Sculpture Gallery

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford VIC
4 – 21 April, 2019

Evening spread against my eyes is a series of paintings and drawings about the experience of darkness while walking home at night. Using layers of tone, abstraction of forms, and slippery points of light and colour, the works describe the strange and surprising space of an evening suburb. Nightfall creates new shapes and colours, and shadows become portals, rich with possibility. The darkness is a lens, disrupting the stable and expected, inviting the viewer into an intangible encounter with place and light.

“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

  • In praise of shadows, 2019, oil and oil stick on canvas, 101.8 x 152.6 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • All that is solid melts into air, 2019, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Seen and passing, 2019, oil and oil stick on canvas, 83.6 x 66 cm.
  • Watching, 2018, oil and oil stick on board, 45.3 x 40 cm, framed. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • It became to me, 2018, oil and oil stick on board, 45 x 40 cm, framed. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Gift, 2018, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Blue and sign, 2019, oil and oil stick on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Bower, 2019, oil and oil stick on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Turning shadow, 2019, oil and oil stick on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Now still, 2019, oil and oil stick on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • The way is not a way but a place, 2019, oil and oil stick on canvas, 83.6 x 66 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Sky on road, 2019, oil on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm. Photo by Dan A’Vard
  • Found inside, 2019, conte and charcoal on paper, 20 x 26 cm, framed.
  • Lost at home, 2018, graphite on paper, 17 x 21 cm, framed.
  • All in me withstanding, 2018, ink on paper, 26 x 20 cm, framed.
  • Shown by night, 2018, conte and charcoal on paper, 26 x 20 cm, framed.