Lorraine Rastorfer
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    • 2014 award shows, group shows
    • 2013 'Vanitas' solo Dunedin
    • 2012 'Flora' works
    • 2011 'Deluge' solo Wellington
    • 2010 'Zwischen' solo Wellington
    • 2008 'Himmel' solo Wellington
    • 2007 'Conversations' Shared Dowse
    • 2005 award, 'Airborne' Solo show Dunedin
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    • Slide Show
    • Muse Gallery - Havelock North
    • Cadence Communications - Auckland
    • Mobile Art - Auckland
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Artist Statement - Ardour

10/16/2015

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My work is all about gesture; a physical trace of movement through space, motion to express thought, embodied marks set in time.     

Each individual work has a history of 10 or more completed works until the lines and their movements synchronise into some kind of intuited whole. I work with the fluidity, viscosity, opacity and transparency of paint, a variety of mark-making tools that I have designed myself and the effects of chance, control and an overall conceptual intent. I keep going until a find a spatial balance; a sense of ordered freedom, a unified variety of rhythms and streams.    

I have considered using gold since my years in Japan and the way it was traditionally used to great effect to create mysterious illumination from shadowy alcoves in homes. These works are intended to be seen in rooms where changing light conditions fire up the work and make the calligraphic strokes blaze.  The gold under-painting is intended to add an intensity to ideas about interactivity, a catching of light when moving past the work, a light that follows the viewer.

Energy, passion, fervour, intensity, ardour. These are the ideas that have fueled this work in order to materialize and fix an unfolding event.
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    • 2017 'transference' solo Pataka
    • 2016 'Ardour '-solo Dunedin
    • 2015 'retrospektiv' , Pataka , 'Wanderlust' solo Auckland
    • 2014 award shows, group shows
    • 2013 'Vanitas' solo Dunedin
    • 2012 'Flora' works
    • 2011 'Deluge' solo Wellington
    • 2010 'Zwischen' solo Wellington
    • 2008 'Himmel' solo Wellington
    • 2007 'Conversations' Shared Dowse
    • 2005 award, 'Airborne' Solo show Dunedin
  • Available Paintings
    • Slide Show
    • Muse Gallery - Havelock North
    • Cadence Communications - Auckland
    • Mobile Art - Auckland
    • Art Associates - Auckland
    • Available from artist in Coromandel
    • Large paintings available in Wellington
    • Paintings in homes and workplaces
  • Bio and essays
    • CV
    • Dowse Catalogue Essay by Jacquie Clarke
    • Art NZ Essay by Becky Hemus
  • Occasional Blog
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