A technique where photographs are printed onto a canvas to give the look and feel of a painting is where budding photographers can blur perceptions of what constitutes a painting, because you can, of course, after printing add texture with paint.
Dr OnacloV is a name that catches your attention, and her art does, too. She is disarmingly delightful. Young, vivacious and with a penchant for a '60s fashion edginess it seems impossible that she's been a lecturer in art at the University of Sydney since 2007 and found time to paint, exhibit, collaborate and publish at the same time. Her list of achievements is formidable. The underwater abstracts for her exhibition at ANCA in Dickson evolved from a research collaboration with marine biologist Erika Woolsey on One Tree and Lizard islands. OnacloV was photographing the marine environment but found the dangling bodies in the underwater space fascinating.
She captures a beautiful body, no devices and no artifice, deep shades of underwater greens, bubbles and shafts of light and a sense of the timelessness found in nature. Family, friends and colleagues were warmly welcomed by Dr OnacloV to the opening. The exhibition continues until Sunday.
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