Conduit Arts
83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Exhibition Opening: 6-9pm Wednesday 9th April 2014
Exhibition Dates: 10 April – 13 April 12pm - 6pm
Polly Stanton’s work was proudly printed by Peter Hatzipavlis at The PrintShop@PSC using our Fine Art Print services.
‘Stórhrid was captured in Iceland during two days of severe and unseasonable weather in late spring. I was told of the approaching storm in the evening and by the next morning it had radically changed the world around me. The scale and ferociousness of the weather brought an unnerving ambiguity to my surroundings – changing shapes, colours and light.
Boundaries felt unclear, built structures and roads disappeared and the horizon became a blanket of white that descended on the land like a heavy curtain. Being outside was an extreme effort. My hands froze in minutes, airborne ice blasted my face and eyes, standing up right was a struggle and my equipment shut down because of the cold.
My experience of the places I had come to identify with and understand geographically rapidly disintegrated as the built and natural environment I recognized withdrew from my view. Known places became zones of unknowable dimensions and scale as my connection with site fell away into an unending field of white space.’
Polly Stanton, Hvítt Sól 2014
