ANNETTE LODGE 27 DAYS IN THE WORLD
NARRATIVE PAINTINGS
A new exhibition of work based on a recent trip through Morocco, Southern France and Spain.
The work is a reflection of my reactions and my observations as a stranger in the different cultures I travelled through and records each day of my trip. There are 27 pieces of work, one for each day I was away from home. It is not a travelogue, but rather the visual diary of a traveller, scratching beneath the surface of appearances. I am most interested in the extreme diversity of humans through our simultaneous conditioning to culture, environment and the randomness of where we find ourselves: in danger, lucky, safe, vulnerable, detached. It is not a philosophical narrative, but rather an attempt to experience a bigger world and the marvelous wonder that goes beyond the four walls of home.
Through a series of symbols, metaphors and words, it is essentially an exhibition about the stories of others.
I live on Scotland is. In Pittwater and have a studio at my house which is too small but looks out on beautiful bush and garden and I love it. I love working in the mornings. My studio gets hot in the afternoon so I will stop for a while and then work in the evening.
The inspiration of my art comes from subtext of places, people, experiences, cultures, words, music. My mentor always Chagall! But stages of many others: Klee, De Kooning, Miro and the writer Milan Kundera. Travel and the unexpected inspires my art practice ?
As a child my leaning to art ,just happened. I just always loved it, my mother was a "Sunday painter" and I used to copy her pictures from about age 4 .
The future to me is always an unknown, I have no idea but I always have faith that new ideas will come, certainly more books and writing and always painting.
My plans for 2011 involve more writing, lecturing, painting and the next series will be linked to literature.
