Collection Thirty | Lisa Rochfort 'Savage Grace' Exhibition

“Light in my work is coming from many different sources. Light for me is like energy I use to show movement. I see pockets of light everywhere. In the silvery coat of a horse, in the glittering intervals between the leaves.

Two and a half years since her last exhibition, Lisa Rochfort's newest body of work is redolent of an era when kinetic geometric pattern and symbolic pantheism seized momentum. Rochfort spent a greater part of the pandemic in a bush studio in central NSW, painting, carving, print making and working on a series of ceramics. The time and solitude yielded a collection united by urgent colour and a febrile searching line. The oils are vivid, so bright, they seem lit from within.

Working plein air has not led her eye to abstract or abbreviate, if anything the brilliance of the sun multiplies her vision and intensifies her perception of the complex geometry underpinning everything around us.