Ros Meeker is a printmaking candidate for Fine Arts Honours and is presenting in November in the Plimsoll Gallery. Her thesis is entitled, Common Ground: A print-based investigation into landscape & issues of consensus & division.
The aim of the project is a visual communication of the concept of common ground. More than just consensus, common ground is also viewed by this project as shared landscape and a holistic perception of various locales, public spaces, shaped by social, historical and geological time. The focus for making is that the meaning of the word ‘ground’, as used by printmakers and painters, acts as a catalyst for process, texture and concept.
Artist Statement
May, 1984 was conceived and produced in the studio- the sources, a photograph and a memory. Working à la poupée, landscape features were enticed from the plates. The resultant work, with its organic expressions, renders tangible a time long past for me, motorcycling the West coast whilst initially exploring this state. The Weather at the time? Rainy. With the prospect of fine weather just out of reach.
