The liminal is a space of sensory threshold, an indistinct transitional zone. In this psychological space, painting offers itself as philosophy in practice – a sensory mode that only needs to solve the problem of its making. Adrian Baiada and Zara June Williams variously occupy this space in their work.
Adrian Baiada pulls a polychromatic fog across his paintings, a space filled with matter shot through by light. His latest work shows a progression into a richer palette with structures and landform emerging from the colour field. Indeterminate objects engage with complex layers of atmospheric colour. We might discern a tree whose vivid trunk enfolds its foliage into the sky. Adrian Baiada lives and works in Thirroul.
Zara June Williams explores an abstracted sensory threshold at different scales. She describes experiments on found surfaces, immersed in an alchemy of colour via material processes enacted in the studio. Her titles lead us to think about the application of paint by the hands, the body. The box frames shift her work between painting and object with double panels butted together offering divergent paths. Zara June Williams is a currently completing a Masters of Fine Art at the National Art School.
-Melody Willis
