University of Tasmania, Australia

Moments will exhibit selected artworks by Mary Ballantyne Fooks highlighting the contrast and similarity from past and recent works, which are linked by a fascination with the idea of vulnerability and flux.  

The earlier works on paper challenge physical presence through portrait. There is a sense of unravelling form in an amorphous ground. The later abstract paintings leave representation of the figurative (figure-portrait) behind and explore ideas of presence and awareness through sensory experience.  

The artwork acknowledges and celebrates human dependence on our basic senses and thus the motivation underlying the work is experiential. The subject refers to elemental substances and the transitory nature of light.