Contours is an interpretation of the natural world. This suite of works, responds to the physical features witnessed on the earth’s surface and their relation to the underlying geomorphology and geological structures encountered.
The works explore the reiteration of reductive, elemental motifs in bas relief, using flat planes of colour to depict landscape; not in any conventional realistic manner, but to apply the visual language of hard edge abstraction based on organic and geometric forms (developed in the artist’s previous work). The addition of planar and sculptural elements add further emphasises to the physiography of each piece.
Its aim is to gaze towards to a world beyond ordinary appearances – where the physical and structural are realised by shifts in perspective via a Neo Brutalist aesthetic.
About the Artist
Helen Shields is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist living and working on Gundungurra and Darug lands in the upper Blue Mountains of NSW. She holds qualifications in Chemistry, Fine Arts, Education and Design. Her practice explores the dynamics of colour and the reiteration of simplified organic and geometric motifs; encompassing Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Collage and Fabric Design. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Quadrant and Red Galleries – Melbourne, Articulate Project Space and Ellipsis Gallery – Sydney, Braemar Gallery and The Hub Upstairs – Springwood, Arts Blue Mts Gallery – Lawson, Blue Mts Cultural Centre – Katoomba, AYN Earth Studio – Istanbul TURKEY, Manpukuji Temple – Kyoto JAPAN, Roccarainola Museum of Contemporary Art – Naples, ITALY and Belconnen Arts Centre – Canberra ACT.
Her work is held in private collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, North America, Turkey and Japan and the permanent collection of Roccarinaola Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples.
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