JACK TROLOVE
STILL BREATHING
30 Jul - 31 Aug 2014
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- Jack Trolove, “As soft as her sadness”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “Mountain”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “My breath caught on you”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “That time of ashes”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “The next dawn”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “The time you dropped away”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “The winter solstice”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “There was a sunrise inside her”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “They grew around each other”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Jack Trolove, “Two hundred footsteps”, 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
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- Installation view at GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide
Jack Trolove | Artist Statement, 2014
These paintings are a way of holding vigil.
When I’m not painting, I work in the suicide prevention field. This body of work gathers together emotional residue and thinking from that space. Visually the work seeded from traditions around death masks. Taken into paint, I wanted these faces to hold that liminal space between the living and dead, that state distinguishable only through a fine thread of breath.
As it turns out, the paint fought hard to keep them firmly on the side of those still, but breathing. They are a fierce, resilient re-membering. Installed facing each other, their closed eyes choreograph us down a gauntlet of loss, or hope.