Summer Haze by Zela Bissett
$450.00
51 x 41 cm on foam core
Summer Haze uses an invasive vine from the riparian zone of the Mary River called the balloon vine (Cardiospermum grandiflorum). In this piece I explore issues about weeds that impact on native ecosystems, particularly the stream banks. The soft fragile backing layer of paper in this piece is made from Mondo Grass and given colour and texture with the addition of the berries of Ceylon Spinach, an edible plant which can replace silver beet in warmer climates. In creating Summer Haze, I combined the fibres of a diversity of plants, some of which are of vital importance for survival and others which have become what we call weeds.
Purchased artworks can be collected on Thursday, 13 July 6:30-8:30 pm*, and on Friday, 14 July during gallery hours
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-6 pm, Saturday 11 am-6 pm
*Gallery is open until 8:30 pm on the 13 July for the next opening night
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Description
Zela Bissett’s exhibition, Paper Hero, is aptly named because the paper itself is the hero of the artworks. These are no ordinary papers but sheets of specialised substance formed by the artist from plants and earths gathered from her subtropical garden. The various plants give colour, texture and character to the papers formed from them. Zela uses banana trunks, ginger stalks, arrowroot, okra, aloe vera and many other plants to achieve a variety of effects in her unique artworks, of which paper is indeed the hero, sometimes complemented by inks which Zela also makes from first-principles. She brews and strains berries, flowers or bark to get different shades and tones. Embedded within the paper are fronds, fragments and tendrils of the plants which were used to make the papers. Zela works within the offerings of nature, finding much to explore and making artworks whose subtle beauty reflects the natural materials from which they are composed.
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