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Alan Ibell, Vessels

Past exhibition
15 September - 9 October 2021
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Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Alan Ibell

Alan Ibell's use of dislocation and non-linear perspective, the purposefully off kilter angles, suggest a fragmented narrative, a question of consciousness. Something isn’t quite right. What is real and what is imagined? What is reality anyway?

Alan Ibell’s works subtly cite frescos by painters of the early Renaissance period. The soft and delicately rendered texture of his paintings feel as if they are mixed deep into plaster. 

His use of dislocation and non-linear perspective, the purposefully off kilter angles, suggest a fragmented narrative, a question of consciousness. Something isn’t quite right. What is real and what is imagined? What is reality anyway?

Visually Ibell leaves us a great deal of time with our own thoughts; his sparsely populated canvases convey psychologically charged environments. Difficult to get right, they contain just a smattering of narrative across a subdued pastel ground: a lone figure, a floating jug, a desolate landscape. The more space he leaves, the more our own memories add in.

Vessels is the subject matter and title for this new exhibition. The canvas itself being a vessel inextricably tied to a complex play between mimicry and material. Dichotomies of full/empty, fire/water, abundant/sparse and traditional motifs are reworked to rethink, reflect, and subvert. 

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Alan Ibell
Vessels 
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Works
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Alan Ibell
    Alan Ibell, Kiln III, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Alan Ibell
    Alan Ibell, Threshold (The Potter), 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Alan Ibell
    Alan Ibell, Threshold (The Well), 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Alan Ibell
    Alan Ibell, Kiln I, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Alan Ibell
    Alan Ibell, Kiln II, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Alan Ibell
    Alan Ibell, Vision of a Depleted Spring, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Alan Ibell
    Alan Ibell, Final Reflection, 2021
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