OUT/ABOUT – Lisa LaPointe ‘Behind The Sun’
From her studio in Whale Beach in the north beaches of Sydney, artist Lisa Lapointe works in colour pencils to create spiritual visuals and bold emblems in saturated colours. Having worked with some of the best in the fashion industry she is now concentrating solely on her own art practice. Her series ‘Behind The Sun’ is currently exhibiting at Modern Times on Smith Street in Fitzroy.
As the collection’s name suggests, each piece represents a story layered with spiritual and tribal iconography. This is an age-old language, one that has no verbal barriers. Contrasted with a strong and sunny colour palette, Lapointe’s drawings are directly linked to personal experience and the representations of the fragility of life and all the emotions that accompany our existence.
LaPointe’s large-scale drawings are painstakingly detailed and although the linework is confidentially precise, the in-fills and horizons are made up from fine individual lines, almost fingerprints of the artist. The very nature of her mark-making, the meditative quality of her very obvious labour of love is spiritual in sentiment and practice.
Lapointe puts it best, “When you work with something so much you become incredibly intimate with it. It can take months for me to complete a work. Each section that I work on is initially raw in color – as the days/ weeks go by the color settles finding its place in the past – just like everything in life.”
Lisa Lapointe ‘Behind The Sun’
Modern Times
311 Smith Street, Fitzroy VIC
Monday – Friday from 10am – 6pm
Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
Until 31st August 2014
Credits: Modern Times & Lisa Lapointe
