Collocott has worked and exhibited in London,
Chicago, Los Angeles,
Sydney, Melbourne,
Wollongong and Bathurst.
“I’m interested in relationships between the city and the
bush,” she says. “I’m interested in climate, the shapes and shadows of the
land, animals, fence-lines, textures, oscillations of colour. My works are like
musical compositions, like jazz. I see various elements as musical instruments,
each with a significant part to play.”
Collocott has spent much of the past 10 years exploring the
qualities of land and light at her six-acre property near Oberon in western
NSW.
3 Ponds Oberon is a multifaceted project comprising three
series of different but related images. Series A (topographical) and B
(meteorological) were exhibited at Bryanhooper Gallery in 2003. Series C
(cerebral) will be exhibited over two shows, the first in October of this year
at Wilson Street Gallery in Newtown,
the second (works in progress) in 2009.
Collocott maintains meticulous documentation of her work,
archiving aerial photographs, news clippings, postage stamps, journal notes and
sketches, dried leaves in plastic sleeves – all manner of marks, traces of time
and place.
In collaboration with Liz Buchmann at Newtown Fine Art
Traders Collocott is currently building a website to showcase her rich and
varied work. The website will be launched later this month.
What impresses, overall, is a sense of commitment to the
image-making process, to creativity as both gift and task. Collocott’s work has
a power to awaken senses and to inspire engagement with one’s own environment.
– www.michellecollocott.com
Photo: Image #9, 3 Ponds Oberon, Series C, 2007
Source:
South Sydney Herald February 2008 – www.southsydneyherald.com.au