IDEACIRCUS – a festival inspired multi-media installation, and Neo-Pop paintings, by artist Gordon Ross. The installation is inspired by the multi media shows of the psychedelic 1960’s, combining elements from kids cartoon shows, 60’s graphics, geometric grids, swirling patterns, and flashing colored lights, to create a carnival like atmosphere. The painted banners and hanging mobiles have previously been decorations at Afrikaburn, and were painted by a number of people. The Neo-Pop paintings revisit images and themes from Pop Art, ranging from maps and flags to famous paintings, all with the colors turned way up. The art extends beyond the walls of the gallery, on to the visitors, some of whom will be wearing fabrics designed by the artist. The audience become participants. The spectators become the spectacle.

Sal Price: HAIKU - Narrative art translates creativity and mark making that renders the flow of consciousness. The stories that emerge deliver subtle commentaries and extend a viewer’s eye to dance with the image as they discover their own narrative and perspective. Meaning is rendered from creativity and mark making facilitate flow of consciousness. The stories that emerge reads subtle commentaries and so begins the viewers dance with the image as they embark on their own personal narrative journey

Artist Statement: For me, as the artist, meaning was created within the creativity of the moment, and represents a flow of global, local and personal consciousness. The impressions created over these moments, shifts over time, giving myself and the viewer, the opportunity to develop a playful dialogue with the images. The works begin with fast and loose marks that lead to the opening of a dance of sorts that begin to forge their unintentional path. Gradually, as we become familiar with each other, the narrative begins. Without knowing which next steps we are taking, together we start to make sense of the possibilities of direction,  as an improvised theme develops and matures. The stories that emerge weave subtle commentaries that may mean something different to each person who observes them. So begins the viewers dance with the image as they embark on their own personal narrative journey.