Meditative Landscape
`Meditative Landscape` is evolving theme of Lee ́s artworks. The artist attempts to simplify the elements of landscape to reflect what she sees as the spiritual order underlying visual communication, creating a clear and universal aesthetic language within her paintings.
Confronted by the natural environment and perhaps with the eye of an outsider as an advantage, she gradually recognizes the wonderful uniqueness and beauty of her surroundings. The feeling of relaxation and communing with these surroundings led her to want to express the awakening in her art.
Zen Buddhism which focusses on individual enlightenment through daily experiences and meditation gradually influenced Du Rhone’s artmaking. She explores the actual physical and mental experiences of painting as her means of meditation. She attempts to represent the mystical emotion and harmony she feels from the surrounding landscape by applying repetitive hand-drawn vertical and horizontal colour- filled lines to pull the viewer into a meditative state of being. In the process of producing the artworks the artist is also in a constant state of meditation just as viewing the artworks can achieve a meditative state without meditation.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 „Meditative Landscape“ CraftNSW,Sydney, Australia
2009 „Meditative Landscapes“, gallery hm, Sydney, Australia
2005 “ Bush Calligraphy“ galleryhm, Sydney Australia
2002 “Bush Calligraphy”, The Gosford Regional Gallery, Australia
1996 “Works on Paper”, The Main Street Editions Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
“Forest II – The Labyrinthine Culture”, Sagak Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 “Forest I”, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1992 “Works on Paper”, The Watch House, Sydney, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 `Art Busan`, Bexco , Busan South Korea
2017 `St-Art Strasbourg, Strasbourg France
2016 `Art Busan`Bexco, Busan South Korea
2013 `KIAF 2013, COEX Seoul, South Korea
`St-Art Strasbourg 2013, Strasbourg, France
2012 `St-ART, Strasbourg 2012, Strasbourg, France
`End of the year exhibition, Cascade Art Space`Germany
2011`KIAF`2012, COEX Centre, Seoul, Korea
2010 `Affordable Art Fair`, Cascade Art Space, Singapore
2009 „Cultural Competence“ You + I = We, Gallery Pakyoung, South Korea
CIGE 2009, Beijing, China
2008 „Affinities“, Cologne, Germany,
Korean International Art Fair,COEX Centre, Seoul, South Korea
2007 Cologne Fine Art Fair, Kolemess, Cologne, Germany
2007 Art Melbourne 07, Royal Exhibition Building,Melbourne, Australia
2007 Korean International Art Fair, COEX Centre, Seoul, South Korea
2006 Art Melbourne 06, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2006 Art Sydney 06, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney
2000 “Twin Eyes” Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.
“Tiger Tower” An outdoor installation in the Canberra Civic Square.
1998-9 “Affinities” – Sir Herman Black & Tin Shed Gallery, Sydney
Watt Space, The University of Newcastle
Canberra School of Art
The Walker Hill Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
1997 “6th International Works on Paper Fair” The State Library, Sydney
“Printmaking Tomorrow”, In-sa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
“Artist Books” Main Street Editions Gallery, Adeliade
1996 “The London Artist Book Fair” Barbican Centre, London, England
1994 “Fragment of Origin”, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1993 “Australia Through Asian Eyes”, Seymour Centre, Sydney
EDUCATION
1994 Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, The University of Sydney
1992 Bachelor of Visual Arts, The University of Sydney