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Yvonne Boag's works on exhibition at Access Contemporary Art Gallery in Sydney and Greenaway Gallery in Adelaide are the result of her travels over the last couple of years in Korea, Japan and Australia.
She spent four months with an Asia Link residency in South Korea in 1995; visited Seoul six times since; was as an artist in residence the Australia Council studio in Tokyo in 1998; and she had more than five exhibitions in Seoul and Tokyo over the last four years. This year she worked in Lockhart River in Far North Queensland as visiting artist at the Lockhart River Aboriginal Community Art Centre.
These diverse locations have all contributed to the work being exhibited. The idea of maps connects these different locations.
The work from Korea is concerned with human spaces, locations of everyday exposure. Large works on paper filled with figures, roads and buildings typifies these works. They show an awareness of the crowding of available space and certain chaos in finding a way through this space. Located inside this moving mass, she made sense of it by the brush mark and the colour put on paper.
By contrast, the work from Japan moves around a vast and seemingly ordered underground city- the subways. The subway, its lines and the colours used on the transit maps and on the trains became the subject of her work. People featured as shapes endlessly waiting. The structure of the tunnels and the lines of the tracks wove a pattern around these waiting figures.
The experience of Seoul and Tokyo leaves one unprepared for a visit to Lockhart River. The experience goes from chaos and crowding to space and a rhythm dictated by the natural environment, especially the weather.
These two exhibitions exhibit the work that has come since Yvonne's visit to Lockhart River. In Lockhart River the bad roads restrict movement and the isolation of the community develops a reliance on an internal dialogue to make sense of the situation. This led to the production of the work that is in these exhibitions - a series of paintings that speak of balance, optimism and recognition of the importance of the spiritual aspect of life.
