Comfort
1988 - 92. Wood, panelling, metal, glass, oil paint. 114”x 92”x 48”
Collection of the artist. Photo: Peter MacCallum

© Renée Van Halm

Fragments of architecture – walls, windows, display cases – form the structural basis of these works. As large objects, they provide complex contexts for the images or texts embedded within.

Selected works include:  Comfort, Material Value, Re-creation, and Translation

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< Comfort uses impoverished materials as a sign of domestic codification and in this instance a site of simulation. The original is alluded to in the copper floor, its simulation in the large painting; the painting is itself copied in the small version that is mounted on the simulated stone wall board. The title alludes to the concomitant desire and fulfilment we strive for in our daily lives through our attention to material culture.