Sue Lovegrove: Vanishing #352

Sue Lovegrove Vanishing #352

Biography:

Sue Lovegrove graduated from the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) in 1990 and completed her PhD, also at ANU, in 2002. Her PhD research was on Aboriginal women’s painting from the desert with a focus on Indigenous perceptions of pictorial and cultural space in painting through experience of everyday life. [1]

Based now in southeastern Tasmania, her practice reflects an intimate and personal experience of landscape; often remote and isolated places that are relatively free of the presence of human beings, Antarctica, Macquarie Island, Maatsuyker Island and Tasman Island, for example.[2]

Lovegrove has held over 25 solo exhibitions across Australia and her work is represented in numerous private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Parliament House, Macquarie Bank, Canberra Museum and Gallery and the University of Canberra.

Artwork:

“Vanishing #352” was acquired by the University of Canberra in 2007, and is one of a series painted as a result of Lovegrove’s 2003 Australian Antarctic Division Fellowship.  The series captures the ceaseless, abstract and fleeting sequence of ice formation, cracking, melting and refreezing with the ever-present backdrop of stark white. [3]

Lovegrove comments on this series:

“I was imagining an experience of a minimal white landscape, hoping to find out what it was really like to be completely surrounded by and lose oneself in the empty whiteness of air and ice. There were moments when I sensed this emptiness, but the part of the trip that I responded to the most was the three to four day period on the ship between crossing the Antarctic convergence, (the mobile interface where the cold Antarctic seas meet and mix with the warmer Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans) and arriving at the dense pack ice of the Petersen Bank near Casey'. [4]

^[1]_{https://www.bettgallery.com.au/artists/36-sue-lovegrove/overview/}

_{[2]https://gallerysmith.com.au/portfolio-item/sue-lovegrove/}

_{[3] Note  Helen Maxwell  Gallery, 'Vanishing , Sue Lovegrove, ' Artist's File Curator's Cabinet}

_{[4]https://suelovegrove.com.au/Vanishing-2005-2006~286}