Exhibition opening: Sat 22 July 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Aarwun Gallery.

Exhibition dates: 22 July - 13 August

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Luminescence is the spontaneous emission of light through chemical reactions. This exhibit brings together recent paintings by Alice Pulvers that are all intensely energetic and  colourful. The chemistry of paint is at work in each of these works. The aesthetic culture of Japan, which Alice absorbed during her childhood years in Tokyo and  Kyoto and in her travels in Europe and other parts of Asia, have all melded together to give her work a unique language of structure, imagination and colour. In these paintings Alice combines striking realism with vivid imagined landscapes.

About the Artist

Alice was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent much of her childhood in Kyoto. This early period of her life profoundly affected her visual imagination and reflects the dominating obsession of Japanese art as it depicts the natural world. Alice has also had the opportunity to spend extended periods living in Paris, as well as travelling in Germany, the UK, China and Singapore. The art Alice saw on her travels has melded in her painting, which is filled with images of air, water, animal and plant life. She recreates the strange relationships between the way we as humans experience our world and the forces of the universe acting upon our sense of reality. In Alice’s work, elements of naturalism, such as birds, fish, cattle and cats, appear in two-dimensional schematic landscapes. These are reminiscent of the way Japanese art flattens and arranges landscapes. Water birds appear frequently in her paintings. Alice has a fascination with these special birds, which can swim under the water, float on the water, walk on the land and fly in the air. In this way they transcend the forces of nature that confine many other living things, including ourselves.