FAIRSKYE

Fairskye has been invited to submit proposals for numerous public art works with substantial budgets. These invitations provided opportunities for research and development of her artistic ideas on a conceptual and material scale not possible in gallery contexts. She has been awarded a total of 12 major public art commissions, alone or in collaboration with other artists, since becoming a professional artist... Aqua - a site-specific public artwork incorporating time-lapse imagery, glass, reflected light and colour, and the movement of people. From a distance you see an abstract field of aqua, then, closer, an image forms an aerial view of a swimming pool, the horizontal field anchored by the black lane markings, and, even closer, a man floats in time and space across the surface of the water. The image provides an unexpected conceptual interruption to the busy streetscape. An iconic Queensland image, at the same time abstract, painterly and figurative. Appearing out of the blue like a..

Primary location: Newtown Australia