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Bronwen’s paintings explore the process of generating order out of apparent randomness in 'found' images, by dry-brush rubbing plants onto silk. At first glance, the paintings can look like loose patterns, but they are actually the result of a sustained examination of marks on the surface. Those marks that might be representations are traced, then obliterated, over and over again. The resulting images reveal something of the ambiguities and assumptions that are part of our daily visual experience. They explore knowing as seeing, the type of seeing when we overlook information for the sake of clarity.
When painting, Bronwen keeps the unknown in mind while also trying to resolve the image as something which can be known and represented. In the sense that these aims cannot ever truly meet, her paintings are meditations.
Bronwen has been exhibiting in Sydney for thirteen years and has a web page at bronwenbassett.com.
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