Monique Tippett’s work bridges the gap between painting and sculpture, exploring her relationship with the forest, specifically, the landscape that surrounds her home near Dwellingup. Monique strives to portray its scale, light, texture and beauty.
Monique trained as a fine furniture maker, with timber her canvas of choice. She believes it is the forest itself which serves to deepen the relationship with the subject. She saws jarrah, sheoak, blackbutt and marri timbers to create a three-dimensional canvas, with spaces and textures that imbue each piece with the elements of the forest that capture her imagination, perspective, colour, light and shadow.
Her works are metaphors for her personal forest experience, each piece an image of the forest that she replays over in her mind. Through the artistic process, they are distilled, abstracted and made real in her studio. She uses techniques for light to reflect off the surface, in a subtle linear geometry, which engages the viewer and the tactile language of bark and timber provide an intimate and material connection.
The works are enigmatic and ask the viewer to consider their own relationship with the natural world, to stand quietly and feel a part of the peace and the power that is felt when immersed amongst a wild and ancient place.
Monique’s work is held in many private and public collections nationally and internationally.
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