Di Broomhall, Geometric Still Life, 2024. Installation view. Photo courtesy of Brenton McGeachie.
Di Broomhall
Chutespace
Friday 1 November - Sunday 24 November
Opening Thursday 31 October 2024, 6pm - 8pm
For this installation piece, Broomhall’s fundamental question is:
“What is still life painting, how did it come about, who else has asked this question?”
In Geometric Still Life the artist uses contemporary found objects to execute a classical still life tableau following Cezanne’s observation that “One should begin by studying geometric forms: the cone, the cube, the cylinder, the sphere. When one knew how to represent the forms and planes of such things, one would know how to paint.”
Di Broomhall, Geometric Still Life, 2024. View-Thru Geometric Solids, Polycarbonate Sundae Glass, dimension variable. Image courtesy the artist.
About the Artist
Di Broomhall is nomadic in her art interests and methods. She is an art historian, art theory and practice researcher, an Arts Professional and an empirical practitioner with visual arts media. She has academic degrees in Art History and Education, a degree in Ceramics and a MA Vis with Distinctions in Painting. Di has studied in residencies in Italy, Egypt and at the Thanka Painting School in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Her studio practice draws on research methods of developing and testing of ideas, materials, conditions and techniques. Contemporary and historical references, empirical research, explorations of perceptual and experienced situations are documented and tested in practical ways.
About Chutespace
In November 2013 the former Griffith Library after-hours book-returns chute was transformed by Jeffree Skewes and Kerry Shepherdson, into a distinctive miniature exhibition space named CHUTESPACE.
CHUTESPACE is an artist run initiative and continues to be voluntarily curated and managed. Artists of all genres can apply for an exhibition.
Mini exhibitions are featured for four-week periods in line with the M16 main gallery exhibition periods.
All artist proposals are considered, and exhibitions are free to the artist.
