Vitalise Surface, Clothing the Screen asks what passes between the canvas and the screen? This question lingers between the play of image, interface and surface through an expanded conception of painting.

Two types of objects are presented;

a transparent box made from prismatic plastic film sourced from unwanted LCD TVs and painting on raw canvas. 

Indeterminate figures are stained into canvas, a process where pigment is embedded in the material fibres, colours absorbing into one another in ambient layers.  Behind the veil of the transparent box, objects oscillate in and out of comprehension as the viewer moves within the space. 

Surface, screen and canvas are intentionally conflated in a way that questions the hierarchy paintings hold. Both are seen as veiling surfaces, containing traceless images unfolding and collapsing together. Here, representation becomes indeterminate and contingent, image is understood as a stain or trace, enveloping something felt that cannot be specified. The works explore the capacity of painting to meet and understand our experience of images today, reflecting on the ambiguous periphery of representation and perception.

Clara Joyce is currently in her final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the VCA, Melbourne.  Her area of practice explores the capacity of painting to meet and understand our experience of images today.  In a hyper expressive, poetic and material way she uses the medium consciously through transparency, opacity and staining techniques. Drawing on the interrelation between screen, canvas and image she creates work that examines the indeterminate qualities of representation and perception.  

She has exhibited in and curated multiple group shows across Melbourne with other emerging artists and held exhibitions in her North Fremantle home.