Dandenong Ranges VIC
Prue Crome’s large colour field paintings are inspired by the atmospherics of light to expand and contract space. Straight lines explore the focus on the man-made interruption to space.
Artworks: 23
Crome’s thoughts reside around the metaphysical concerns of transience and connectedness.
Her background is in environmental sciences, industrial design, graphics and sculpture. She has had solo and group exhibitions in Cairns, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Yokohama and Hamburg.
Whilst doing her Masters of Fine Arts she became enthralled with space and light, investigating the conditions that alter perception through immersive installations. The whole body experience is where her passion lies, such as feeling lifted by the surf, on a mountain top ready to launch into flight and suspended in clouds or bathed in the grandeur and awe of vast landscapes.
Light is her primary focus and colour is used to shift the balance and scale to create immersive abstract colour fields. Colour choice and placement are intuitive and sometimes influenced by sunsets and storm events witnessed from her hilltop in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne. The layering of pigments attempts to capture the allusive nature of light and depth perception on the illusionary field of canvas. She uses oils for their luminous and lustrous qualities and their slow drying, allows for blending and blurring of the layers. Gestural marks are minimised though the energy of blending is imbedded in the works.
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