Maevaughn Chiu
Chiu’s interest lies in exploring the relationship between colour and form and the psychological effect they elicit from the viewer. Inspired by the indistinct memories of her early childhood. Sun bleached heat of the colours, also reminiscent of the colouring of photos from that period in the early 70s.
She is interested in the emotional space that they fill.
Her idiosyncratic style has developed out of a desire to create a language that communicates a sense of a place in her past. The memory of a sensation. The interconnectedness of history, environment, relationships and the flow of energy through everything are intrinsic.
Compositions draw on memories and connections she feels to artists, design movements and places. The shapes are drawn from a diverse array of visual images, from the modernist art that inhabited her childhood, to forms she associates with her time living in Africa, Asia and North America.
The linear works are intuitive and performative, alluding to themes of existence, evolution, connections and relationships. They are painted freehand in layers and there is an autonomy to the process, with each line reacting to the previous one. is visible and what is not.
Each work is influenced by the characteristics of the paint as well as her physical and emotional state as she applies it.