Glenda Ewin

Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
A collaboration between Hawkesbury City Council and Baulkham Hills Shire Council
Synthetic Spaces | 8 June – 22 July 2007

“It’s the ‘in between’ that matters…
The negative space,…the quiet,…the calm,…
The infinite space,…the break,…
The ’in between’, that leads us to the next
The next note,…the next beat,…the next sound,…
The next object,…the next moment,…the next…
The next space, in between.
That glorious emptiness, that silence,…that break, that calm…
That negative space that holds everything together…
Without it, nothing exists.
That wonderful ‘in between’ that allows our very existence to become whole.
That infinite intangible void…
That infinite tangible void…
The ‘in between’.”

Glenda Ewin

Our experience of the world is often governed by not having enough ‘time’ to stop and really take in what is happening around us. My visual practice continually investigates the relationship between ‘space’ and ‘time’. My images reflect my experience of taking time to really ‘see’ spaces, places and objects that are in our day-to-day lives. It is about engaging with them and capturing beauty.

My installations collectively titled In Between, are a result of deconstructing and reconstructing spaces within Andre Kertesz’s photograph Chez Mondrian Paris 1926. This image has always been an inspiration to me and although being from the early 20th Century its composition is contemporary and evokes a sense of spatial ambiguity.