manipulated and collaged photograph - testing process prior to Residency at UNSW Research Station in Fowlers Gap - scheduled October 2019. (In camera abstractions).
Hand manipulated photograph with hand drawn elements.
manipulated and collaged photograph of a sculptural form, (coloured acrylic, acrylic mirror, air dry clay, found coral). This project marked the beginning of a new investigation into the binaries of chaos and the transcendental (simultaneously experienced by Mothering) which I continue to examine.
Hand manipulated photograph.
From her ongoing series, Guilt Free (M) other.
Monica Renaud’s new works on linen and paper, originate as a single iPhone image taken during everyday domestic ritual. She transfers these palm sized pictures into distorted large-scale realms before gently hand manipulating the photographic data.
Colour, line, composition and space inform these painterly abstractions from the artist, who says she “finds solace amongst the valleys and folds” of the digitally generated landscapes.
The meditative process of transforming something presumed artless or banal into a complex, multilayered, parallel Universe, Renaud says, “acts as metaphor for her experience of being born into Motherhood.”
Hand manipulated photograph with hand drawn elements.
Hand manipulated photograph with hand drawn elements.
Hand manipulated photograph with hand drawn elements.