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| Rochelle Haley in her studio, photo Owen Craven. |
Rochelle Haley is
an artist and researcher, based in Sydney, who works with experimental drawing, expanded painting,
movement and spatial performance practice. She is a lecturer at UNSW Art &
Design. Rochelle's projects involve live drawing, dance, painting and installation to
explore space structured around the sensation of the moving body. She is interested in the relationship between bodies and the
physical environments they move in; exploring movement
both in the creative process as well as in how the work is viewed. Rochelle's most recent exhibitions include Afterglow, a participatory, collaborative, painting and dance choreographed performance at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery in September 2017; Bare Loggia at Galerie PomPom Sydney in May 2017; Spin at Museum of Contemporary Art ARTBAR Sydney, 2016; Patternation at Hazlehurst Regional Gallery and Through Form at Galerie Pompom, Sydney,
in 2015.
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| Rochelle Haley, Afterglow rehearsal with Angela Goh and Ivey Wawn, 2017, photo Jessica Maurer, source Concreteplayground |
My Gunyah residency project will expand on my explorations into geometric
designs and patterns of dance notation through the lens of contemporary
abstract painting. Choreographic notational systems of influential dance
theorists and practitioners including Rudolf Laban and Noa Eshkol will be
referenced as rich inspiration material for abstract paintings and the source
of compositions for colourful abstract works made with acrylic paint and
translucent resin while in residence. I plan to begin with colour studies working with acrylic
painting on board followed by multiple layers of colourful translucent resin
painting. The final paintings will likely be glossy
abstract paintings that draw compositional structure from the intricate
geometric detail and motifs of dance notation and are inspired by the
contrasting colours and clashing hues of the modernist period in which Laban
and Eshkol worked.
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Rochelle Haley, Flow – Red Yellow Bronze, 2016,
acrylic, ink, Oregon veneer and resin on board, 76 x 46 cm
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To see more of Rochelle's work go to her website www.rochellehaley.com
