Shared Air

This exhibition’s work is a culmination of Lilou Melville’s evolved practice during her degree studio work. This piece aims to highlight a feeling of air and transparency in medium. Melville uses acrylic mediums to create these pieces - working with opacity and weight of paint as well as displaying a balance of painted and unpainted areas, indicative of her style.

The focus of her work often aims to capture birds in flight performing actions of fighting, falling, diving or feeding in pairs or solo and this is no different in ‘Shared Air’. She creates a narrative between two pairs of abstractly coloured Foster’s Turn birds that are interacting in close quarters of another. Their wings and mark making attributes are inspired by traditional Chinese ink painting as well as their availability to share a story from the scene the viewer has caught these two pairs in.