Science and art collaborate in Flying Pretty
Favoured by the likes of wildlife photographers and naturalists, macro photography is a large name that refers to photographing tiny things. Now local artist Salli Sixpence has embraced the scientific tool in her exhibition Flying Pretty.
Macro photography uses slides to create (and record) extreme close-ups of tiny objects. It’s this technique, combined with splashings of paint and intense light, that Salli has used to form each of her artworks and give traditional botanical artwork a fresh twist. A background is first formed by sliding two acrylic laden glass plates together. From there, segments of flora and knick knacks are placed on the plate with refracted light underneath, before being photographed.
The artistic realm emerges with Salli’s mixture of botanical objects via pieces of glass, mirrors, loud paint, resin and placement to form romanticised images of flying and dancing creatures. Splashes of light and vibrant colour form the intense background, on which slivers of flora are twisted and bent into precise and unusual shapes on the canvas. Flying Pretty will be exhibited at Paddington’s Lethbridge Gallery from this Saturday February 9 until February 21.
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