Lesley Dickman
Drawings, Sculpture and Paintings
Still Life /Food for Thought is a body of work created during the lockdown period we endured as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.The medium is pastel on paper and range in colour from warm reds and oranges to a cooler range of blue greens and purples. There are ten drawings and can be seen if you open my drawing page and scroll down to the last group of works. Hope you enjoy. Lesley
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Lesley Dickman
My work begins with a concept or idea that I sense opens a wellspring of visual possibilities, and questioning of social constructs. Using techniques to develop structure, form and dimension, I journey through a process of connection and response to the world that I am creating. This world seems to be in a continual state of flux, of metamorphous, an invention then reinvention as I search for that illusive image that gives power and strength to the concept, and opens the doors to questioning social values.
My influences are drawn from the German Expressionist movement of the forties and later the large figurative painters such as Anselm Keifer and George Baselitz in the eighties. In his large monumentally artworks Keifer used materials such as lead, straw, found objects, wood, and sand to name a few, and combined historical references that confronted a dark German history.
Often the materials themselves are a guide to the artwork I make. The softness of fabric , the embedded history in bones, the chemistry of salt, or the immediacy of being able to change the image with paint or pastel are all part of the physical and the spiritual essence that bring the artwork to life.
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About the Work
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
- Bachelor of Fine Art - majoring painting and sculptures 1981 - 1984 Monash University
- Graphic art, Swinburne Technical College, 1964 to 1966
- Philosophy Latrobe University (unit of post graduate diploma of art) 1994
- Open Studio Guildford Lane Gallery August 2009
- 12 months residency St Vincent's Hospital, recent works, Melbourne 2008
