Veronica Herber: “swathe”
February 28, 2017 - April 9, 2017
Boardroom
Veronica Herber, Installation view of ‘Fold‘, Blue Mountains City Gallery, 2016
Veronica Herber’s art practice has two main threads. Firstly, she is an installation artist, constructing large ephemeral sculpture works from hand torn Washi masking tape. These works are of a large scale, site specific, and deal with the vagaries of site and all its challenges. However, in contrast she spends the rest of her time in the studio carrying on the exploration of materiality and process through drawing. These tape drawings are labour intensive and meticulous. They pursue the investigation of process, repetition, and chance.
For the Pah Homestead she is looking at creating a ‘swathe’ of tape fabric running from the upstairs landing through to the Boardroom, the tape will encounter a multitude of surfaces/angles and at times be hanging in mid-air.
Herber’s present interest is in the formal aspects of a grid and the dichotomy of complexity within simplicity. She is simultaneously interested in the marking of time that occurs as a fabricated form emerges through repetition.
Her works on paper are constituted of hundreds of small tape squares; each piece is torn and placed down by hand. This is a meditative process that allows discovery within the rules of the grid.