The role of the infinitely small is infinitely large. Louis Pasteur

The reality of our reality is like that of an iceberg - the vast majority of it is hidden from view. Yet, with the aid of modern technology we are able to peer into this mysterious microscopic world and when we do, we uncover a whole new range of visual forms, some familiar, others completely alien.

Scale Free Network (SFN) is an Australian art-science collaborative made up of two artists (Briony Barr & Jacqueline Smith) and a microbiologist (Dr. Gregory Crocetti). Their interdisciplinary workshops and interactive installations focus on observation of the micro-scale as a source of inspiration and wonder, combining drawing processes, sculpture and microscopy as tools for visualising, exploring and learning about ‘invisible’ worlds.

Science & Art will walk hand in hand next month as TWFineArt collaborates with the Scale Free Network to create limited edition Cotton Rag Prints of images from under the microscope. Since scale and perception are key interests, we will be blowing up these tiny microscopic images to human proportions. The result being pixelated, painterly compositions of color and form where you not only questions the nature of the forms themselves, but also the nature of the imagery. Is it a tree or the branches of an amoeba - a painting or a photo? Regardless - the images are stunning!

Stay tuned to www.twfineart.com for the release date of this exciting collaboration.

     

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TWFA's Rebecca Norton is one busy lady with multiple exhibitions on the roster for 2014. Norton is currently in Kentucky for the opening of her exhibition In Between, where her work will be featured alongside fellow artist Nicolas Jorcino. "The exhibition In Between features paintings by Rebecca Norton and Nicolas Jorcino. The artists bring both modern aesthetics and timeless ideas to the centuries-old medium of painting. They test the spatial limits of two-dimensional art through the feeling of depth that they infuse in their compositions. This illusion of depth often makes us feel as though we could walk into and physically explore the painted worlds that they create and the scale of their paintings further accentuates the idea that their artworks are actually extensions of the space we inhabit. In addition to this interplay between two- and three-dimensional representations, their works cross the boundaries between painting and other disciplines – architecture, mathematics, music, urban planning, and poetry."  

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Next month we feature the work of Veronica Ibanez Romagnoli in the TWFineArt Gallery. A major theme in Veronica's work '4:36PM' is the transformative quality of light and the way it shapes how we perceive the world. Veronica's light box installations are created using multiple photo frames of the same interior scene taken over time. Each photograph is printed on glass and superimposed over the other to create a 'cross section' of moments. The work highlights the impermanence of the instant and the transient nature of our existence as our senses navigate reality moment by moment.

Working in a different medium all together, yet linked by the transformative theme, Rebecca Norton is occupied with the hidden geometric transformations of spatial reality. Affine transformations describe the constant movement of spatial planes as we move through reality. Recently Norton has been working on paintings & animations that capture the dynamism of this hidden spatial reality. View Rebecca Norton Animation here.

[caption id="attachment_8639" align="alignleft" width="338"] Untitled, Rebecca Norton 2014[/caption] [caption id="attachment_8642" align="alignleft" width="339"] Untitled, Rebecca Norton 2014[/caption]

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TWFineArt will be collaborating with our creative partner Scale Free Network to participate in the anticipated re-launch events for the Brunswick St Mall on Sunday August 10th 2014 between 12:00 & 5:00pm.

Since the theme of the event is transformation, our interactive performance will involve mall goers in the transformation of simple chemicals to large scale bubbles!

The main chemical involved in this transformation will be diagramed and mapped out on the mall pavement and from each molecular point a team member will work with mall goers to create large scale bubbles from the chemical solution.

We will photograph and document the event then upload the photos to the www.twfineart.com website blog, so people can log on and see the photographic results of their bubble making experience. LIKE us on FACEBOOK we will email you a copy of your photo.

See you there!

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We have just added a new series of art in print by TWFineArt's Julika Lackner. This series is a gorgeous abstract representation of the American landscape in locations like Yellowstone National Park. Like the impressionists, Lackner captures moments of light and color. What she sees around her is depicted in layers of horizontal bands that reference the horizons of landscape. Like layers of sediment, the bands pile on top of each other to create complex abstract visions of the environments around her. Visit Juilka's PORTFOLIO to view the full collection. [caption id="attachment_9827" align="alignleft" width="356"] Color Bands - Yellowstone, 2014. Print by Julika Lackner[/caption] [caption id="attachment_9828" align="alignleft" width="357"] Color Bands - Yellowstone Light, 2014. Print by Julika Lackner[/caption]

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