My exhibition Bedrooms-opens at Rubicon Ari , Wednesday 13th April
Elyss McCleary, Michael Street, Brunswick (Bedroom Space No.1) oil on canvas, 2015.
Bedrooms can be perceived as private spaces, repeatedly hosting the dreamer resting for they say up to one third of our time here. The presence of their inhabitants, guests, objects and occurrences come about day and night. In this series the approach to this setting is engaged in a process of conversations and visits to friends to paint their room, accompanied by a taped up photocopy still image of a film or tv show that the person holds strong in their memory.
Throughout the discussions about the selected imagery a formation around what is perceived, imagined and recalled in media and film reveal the connection of the subconscious. The actuality of the person’s lodgings they are currently in and the screenshot placed above the bed reference a hovering of stored afterthoughts and existing moments in both real time and sleep time when images are created. The absence of the room dweller/s in the paintings produces an interior of a portrait of thoughts which sit in both past, present and future worlds.
This project began in late 2015 and records collaboration between the space in a way being the protagonist for scenes of its own inhabitants over time.