Tanks Arts Centre - Tank 4
Collagists generally believe any loose material is potentially usable in their work. “Don’t stand still in front of me; you may find yourself attached to a canvas!”
Carole King is a professionally trained artist with a diploma in fine art, majoring in colour and design, and printmaking, and a diploma in adult education (community) from UTS Sydney. Her work is representational. However, with collage, some abstraction of shape may occur, which is not unwelcome.
“Trees have a different life experience…
My affinity with coastal areas begins with water; where plant life, water birds, sea grasses, and mangroves (habitat) create nurseries for sea communities in tidal creeks and wetlands, as in Cattana Wetlands, Cairns. Working with paper; cut, torn, gathered, and purchased with a support of canvas, allows me to create surface layers which represent to me our fragile eco-system.”