VENUS MARINA / THE ROSES CAME ROARING

Sumer, 27 Beach Road, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2023

Venus Marina / The Roses Came Roaring

Rules by which all works across the series can be seen to conform; not only in terms of palette, form, and material treatment, but also with the use of compositional structures. The most notable of these structures being Hill’s collage: wherein two rectangular panels of roughly cut canvas are superimposed upon a stretched canvas. Positioned horizontally, they obscure most of the canvas beneath. The two panels do not touch, yet they still divide the canvases in half—effectively creating two hemispheres: land and sky, sea and sky, two halves of a clam shell, or the upper and lower eyelid.