ERIKA GOFTON - EXHIBITIONS AT STOCKROOM
Stockroom Kyneton, gallery 1
October 2017
ERIKA GOFTON
Liminal
Erika Gofton’s work is fundamentally about empathy. About how we respond and feel for another and in turn how we then connect to ourselves. She is especially interested in exploring the intersubjective relationship of mother and child, in particular that liminal state of adolescence; the heightened internal fear and anxiety of being close yet distant in the same breath. Her work sits somewhere precariously between the light and the dark, the beautiful and the ugly, the lucid and the ambiguous. The work is a catharsis, a way to confront the discomfort both through the image and the process. It has become the nadir, the threshold, the point of letting go. The mark has become both the conduit and the counsel.
Upward Fall, 2017
oil on linen
110 x 61cm
Deafening Silence, 2017
charcoal on paper, framed
100 x 60cm
False Truth, 2017
charcoal on paper, framed
100 x 60cm
Open Secret, 2017
charcoal on paper, framed
150 x 94cm
Exhale 14, 2017
oil on linen
20 x 20cm
Inhale 15, 2017
oil on linen
7.5 x 7.5cm
Inhale 13, 2017
oil on linen
26 x 16cm
Exhale 18, 2017
oil on linen
20 x 20cm
Exhale 6, 2017
oil on linen
26 x 16cm
Exhale 4, 2017
oil on linen
12 x 12cm
Inhale 5, 2017
oil on linen
20 x 15cm
Exhale 12, 2017
oil on linen
15 x 15cm
Rapid Pause, 2017
oil on linen
76 x 61cm
Exhale 2, 2017
oil on linen
19 x 12cm
Inhale 17, 2017
oil on linen
20 x 20cm
True Myth, 2017
oil on linen
110 x 66cm
Now Past, 2017
oil on linen
76 x 66cm
Visible Darkness, 2017
oil on linen
75 x 61cm
Inhale 3, 2017
oil on linen
20 x 15cm
Inhale 21, 2017
oil on linen
12 x 12cm
Exhale 8, 2017
oil on linen
15 x 15cm
Sincere Lie, 2017
oil on linen
76 x 56cm