Michele Theunissen
Michele Theunissen shifts between interests within the different chosen media, with film being a vehicle most suited to political commentary or experimentation with projections in spaces. The exploration of skin and surface lead her paintings to a more abstract approach, driven by an interest in the pulses and invisible forces that underpin form.
The exploration of skin and surface lead her paintings to a more abstract approach, driven by an interest in the pulses and invisible forces that underpin form. Paradoxically, it is through the use of material substances, the physical stuff of matter on a surface, that the paintings exist. In this binary relationship between pigment and a subject matter that is elusive and indefinable, something comes to exist albeit ambiguous: something felt rather than known. During the making there is an attempt to push thought aside and let intuition creep in to guide the process, being present to the relationship between its own materiality and herself. 'I am because you are' produces a third thing. This notion can be extended to the relationship between the works and how they impact each other, between the artist and others, and ultimately between the work and the viewer.
Michele Theunissen shifts between interests within the different chosen media, with film being a vehicle most suited to political commentary or experimentation with projections in spaces. The exploration of skin and surface lead her paintings to a more abstract approach, driven by an interest in the pulses and invisible forces that underpin form.
The exploration of skin and surface lead her paintings to a more abstract approach, driven by an interest in the pulses and invisible forces that underpin form. Paradoxically, it is through the use of material substances, the physical stuff of matter on a surface, that the paintings exist. In this binary relationship between pigment and a subject matter that is elusive and indefinable, something comes to exist albeit ambiguous: something felt rather than known. During the making there is an attempt to push thought aside and let intuition creep in to guide the process, being present to the relationship between its own materiality and herself. 'I am because you are' produces a third thing. This notion can be extended to the relationship between the works and how they impact each other, between the artist and others, and ultimately between the work and the viewer.
Michele Theunissen shifts between interests within the different chosen media, with film being a vehicle most suited to political commentary or experimentation with projections in spaces. The exploration of skin and surface lead her paintings to a more abstract approach, driven by an interest in the pulses and invisible forces that underpin form.
The exploration of skin and surface lead her paintings to a more abstract approach, driven by an interest in the pulses and invisible forces that underpin form. Paradoxically, it is through the use of material substances, the physical stuff of matter on a surface, that the paintings exist. In this binary relationship between pigment and a subject matter that is elusive and indefinable, something comes to exist albeit ambiguous: something felt rather than known. During the making there is an attempt to push thought aside and let intuition creep in to guide the process, being present to the relationship between its own materiality and herself. 'I am because you are' produces a third thing. This notion can be extended to the relationship between the works and how they impact each other, between the artist and others, and ultimately between the work and the viewer.