Liminal Home
Natalie Robinson
Liminal Home draws inspiration from the domestic space of home. In a time of regular self-isolation, the safe space of home has become more important than ever. In this series, familiar space is taken, twisted and made strange through the manipulation of imagery to produce new, unfamiliar environments to situate oneself in. Photos of household rooms are altered and transformed into a new reality. Liminal Home lies on the threshold of the intangible – surreal-like spaces emerge from the very quotidian and are made into the unrecognizable.
Blue floors meet balcony
Oil on canvas, 55″ x 40″ 2020
A deck built by Dad (close enough)
Oil on canvas, 36″ x 42″ 2020
Cumulation No. l
Oil and acrylic collaged on canvas, 36″ x 36″ 2020
Cumulation No. ll
Oil and acrylic collaged on canvas, 48″ x 36″ 2021
Cumulation No. lll
Oil and acrylic collaged on canvas, 48″ x 36″ 2021
ARTIST STATEMENT
“My practice communicates the appreciation I have for the prosaic. I draw inspiration from the overfamiliar, mundane environments we live through day to day and express the unseen of these spaces. My work is a continuous exploration of perspective, form, colour and my relationship to these intimate and domestic places that I recreate as a ‘familiar-nowhere.’ I hope to disrupt the figure-ground relationship, each painting living as a puzzle of space and form interacting with each other.”
Studio through sunroom blinds
Oil on canvas, 24″ x 36″ 2020
Out the downstairs window
Oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″ 2020
