Two Rooms Gallery

The gallery had exhibitions by two artists
Tracey Moffatt and Murray Green

The first of the two we looked at was Tracey Moffatt
She was displaying her "First Jobs" series
It was a series of modified photos showing a narrative about the varied jobs that she partook during her time as a teenager and student. she has shot in or converted to black and white and then coloured. due to the nature of this colouring it was difficult to tell which format she shot in. it looked feasible that she shot on film and cut gels to give the colour, or could have done digital manipulation. she was using pastel colours orange green pink yellow... it apeared very pop art like, the restricted palette allowed cohesion between the photos, with only half way through me noticing that they weren't in chronological order (in order of when she did them? random order?)
In each photo there was a Wheres Wally element to it, where you look around through all the pastel colours to find the ompalompa coloured face, almost comically out of place aesthetically.

the one that caught me the longest was the waitress photo it had a unatural feel that took me a while to work out what it was, in the large size the shadows from the chairs became faint and were devoured by the paterning of the carpet, making a more

We didn't pay much attention to her video works which were also on display at the gallery in the same room.



The other exhibition was Murray Green a painter, he was using polyester based resin to created depth and suspension. Brush marks frozen in space. The resin used was somewhat opaque giving a flat appearance to most of the paintings despite their 3D nature. As you got closer to them you start to notice their depth. Another aspect that was interesting was how he left the sides unframed they were a block that stood out from the wall allowing you to decipher how they were constructed and mentally workout how you would deviate if you to create one yourself. The technique was so interesting you don't look at the works longing to find some hidden clue in it as to what it represented. the aesthetic seemed to be the focus. I noted how interesting it would be to have a entire wall done using the same effect. after the naff explanation about the exhibit it was very pleasing for it to far exceed my hesitant lowered expectations.

One of the paintings had blue glossiness coming out to the resin reminding me of when you have water slowly seeping through material, or like blood starting to merge when you get a graze.
another had swelling drips inside which made a pattern like bricks.
grayish blue swipes with the brush with the layers making there appear to be a colour difference becoming a 3d object appearing as a 2d object representing a 3d object.


The gallery had a large open room space and a smaller naturally lit room upstairs, the typical gallery industry standard white walls. the segregation of the two spaces was intriguing it allowed for the gallery to feel like two separate gallery entities.

photos from Two Rooms Gallery