Intersections

Gaffa Gallery 21 June - 2 July 2018 with Jonathan Webster

Intersections is a new body of work from Jonathan Webster and Shellaine Godbold that examines and explores the connection and division of shared places and spaces.  Taipei has become a shared place for Jon and Shellaine, though each artist has a different understanding and approach to their connection to the city.  

The works in Intersections are responses to selected photographs which were taken by Jon as part of his continued project of recording and understanding the minutiae of his life in Taipei.  For Shellaine the photographs are a memory sense device - recollections of the smell of incense at Longshan Temple and the sound of rain at night on the eaves of an illegal Taipei apartment, exploring the space between what is remembered and an anecdote that begins to hold itself as a memory.

Jon’s work maps the intersections between architecture, atmospheric conditions and public spaces. Marks are laid down on paper to suggest the shimmer of a building coalescing out of the mist and rain – an urban Fata Morgana.  Jon uses subtle watercolour washes to mimic the reflections of market stall lights reflected on puddles in Taipei streets.  

For Intersections each artist has used the primacy of drawing to understand and make sense of this space. Jon and Shellaine’s work is a dialogue of marks – their own unique syllabary they use to communicate to each other with.