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6 - 23 August 2008 |
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DRAWING PARALLELS a group show exploring what drawing is and what its boundaries are
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The act of drawing is the nucleus of creativity and the fire in the belly of the artist. In celebration of drawing ROAR! gallery has called on mark makers from Cape Reinga to the Bluff for their finest works.
DRAWING PARALLELS makes drawing a focus for creation and cohesion in all creative fields of endeavour. This exhibition is an exploration of what drawing is and what its boundaries are. Drawing is immensely broad in scope as an art form, but how far can it go?
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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROJECT Since 2001 ‘PABLOS’ has run a series of artist-in-residence programmes selecting professional artists to work in the studio.
The programme provides a culture of understanding and exploration of artistic process. Artists are selected for their ability to share specific skills and approaches to art making. Past artists have included Raewyn Atkinson, Simon Morse, Margaret Elliot and Tom Sladden. |
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YELENA BARBALICH Yelena Barbalich was selected by Pablos to demonstrate the creation of abstract art through an intuitive and organic process of mark-making. Her brief was to create site specific work while allowing the opportunity for Pablos artists to engage with her and her process. The residency lasted for two weeks during which Yelena worked at Pablos three days a week and at other times from home.
Prior to the residency Yelena experimented with increasing the scale of her smaller works on paper to enable her to create larger scale works for this exhibition. The works exhibited on the wall are a result of that exploration and were completed over the period of the residency. The exhibition was hung in response to the finished works. Over the past fifteen years Yelena has honed and developed her own unique visual language. The structure of this language is based online, shape and colour. These are Yelena’s basic elements, her building blocks from which pattern, space and proportion develop. Yelena uses her art as a conduit to communicate and connect as an artist with those around her.
The work shows us that the qualities of line and shape can convey meaning directly to the viewer without the need for words or written explanation. Yelena has created a considerable body of work. She is mapping her own world using pattern and colour to form landscapes of the imagination.
Yelena has exhibited In Wellington a regular basis since 2001. and is widely collected. She exhibited at the New Dowse exhibition ‘My House Surrounded by a Thousand Suns’. Her designs can been seen etched on the entrance door at 100 Tory Street and on the Ministry of Education website. She was an artist member of Art Compass, a studio-gallery supporting artists with intellectual disabilities in Wellington. Since the closure of Art Compass Yelena has connected with two Wellington based artists who, for the past two years, have worked with her at her studio at home. They have continued to support Yelena throughout the duration of the Pablos residency |
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