2001 - TRAVELOGUE

Exhibited at the Blue Oyster Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand, Travelogue consisted of a series of paintings created through a process of random wanderings. 19 people were blindfolded and positioned in a simulated grid reference of a map of Dunedin. The grid was made of string. The participants were disoriented and encouraged to place a marker in the grid, wherever they liked. 

I travelled to each of the identified locations and recorded the journey on a dictaphone. I then made paintings from these recordings and memories.  I was excited by the prospect of developing a social and geographically explorative approach to painting. Initially, representational images appeared in the paintings but over time the images became more atmospheric. For me, how I was perceiving the journeys became more important than what I was experiencing, hence the slipping into atmospheric abstract paintings.