SÉRAPHINE PICK
Sundogs
10 November – 21 December 2022

STATION | SYDNEY

Séraphine Pick’s original and imaginative practice has made her one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded painters. For the past thirty years, Pick has engaged with figments of memory and explored the body as a site of consciousness in her painting practice. Over time her works have evolved from dark and rich tableaus to more expansive works with sinuous lines, pointillist technique and a bright, acidulated palette. Working primarily in oils and watercolours, Pick has become known for her particular brand of off-beat and hazy surrealism, combining atmospheric dreamscapes with conventions of traditional portraiture.

Pick’s role as an observer is central to her practice. Her previous fascination with the digital and virtual world as a lens for inspecting universal human experience has been replaced by an interest the relationship between humans and our natural world. Sundogs presents a suite of oil paintings informed by the green and lush surroundings of the artist’s studio, each work containing fragments of her experience and relationship to the location.

These new works explore the human history and connection to the botanical, encouraging the viewer to consider the importance of the natural world. Employing an intuitive, semi-abstract approach to painting, Pick’s dreamlike works explore the transformative energies of nature. Through this approach, Pick offers a connection to the unseen inner space, to revel in the visual experiences and sensations of the natural world. Unstretched canvases, colourfully painted and stained, provide a backdrop for the paintings, turning the gallery into an immersive atmosphere. Pick’s works sit in a place between the abstract and figurative, the digital and the natural, the up-lifting and reflective, that encourage audiences to foster a sense of connection with the natural world.

Installation Views

Artworks

Séraphine Pick
Fleeting 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
90.0 x 60.0 cm

Séraphine Pick
Storm Water 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
91.0 x 62.0 cm

Séraphine Pick
Vortex Waltz 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
101.0 x 68.9 cm

Séraphine Pick
Sundogs 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
178.0 x 78.0 cm

Séraphine Pick
Liquid Moon 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
98.0 x 68.9 cm

Séraphine Pick
Bokeh 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
63.0 x 48.5 cm

Séraphine Pick
Sage 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
128.0 x 60.0 cm

Séraphine Pick
Still Life Through Window 2022
Oil on linen on acrylic on loose canvas
124.0 x 83.0 cm

Séraphine Pick
Body Memory 2022
oil on linen, acrylic on unstretched canvas
110.2 x 74.0 cm

Séraphine Pick
Susserus 2022
oil on canvas framed, hemp twine, glazed ceramic hook
33.0 x 25.5 cm

Séraphine Pick
Squall 2022
oil on canvas framed, hemp twine, glazed ceramic hook
33.0 x 25.5 cm

Séraphine Pick
Dusk Scattering 2022
oil on canvas framed, hemp twine, glazed ceramic hook
27.5 x 27.5 cm

Séraphine Pick
Sentient 2022
oil on canvas framed, hemp twine, glazed ceramic hook
27.5 x 27.5 cm