Nature’s Infrastructure
Often when I first look at an artwork on the computer, I see layers within it before I can find its name. I spend time simply staring at those layers and allowing the work to reveal itself. With Nature’s Infrastructure, my eye went first to the beautiful resonant...
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SPECIFICATIONS
Artwork Details
- Title
- Nature’s Infrastructure
- Dimensions
- 90 × 110 cm
- Print medium & paper
- Giclée Print created on Museum Archival Fine Art Paper / Hahnemühle German Etching Rag 310gsm
- Edition
- Limited edition of 5
- Collection
- Paintings on Water
- Colour mood
- Cool
- Authenticity
- Signed and supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity
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SCARCITY
Limited Edition
Nature’s Infrastructure is released as a limited edition artwork. Editions are made available progressively, with the value increasing as the edition advances.
The Story Behind the Artwork
Often when I first look at an artwork on the computer, I see layers within it before I can find its name. I spend time simply staring at those layers and allowing the work to reveal itself.
With Nature’s Infrastructure, my eye went first to the beautiful resonant blue. It seemed to hold the artwork together against a forest of deep green, across which fragments of light glistened.
Then the remaining layers of gold and earth began to emerge. The longer I looked, the more they suggested roads, beaches, tracks and coastlines—the infrastructure of some hidden world viewed almost from above.
And then there are the shapes moving across the surface.
At times they remind me of carved forms from the Tiwi Islands, seemingly floating across the water. That is a visual association rather than a literal cultural reference, but it adds another layer to what I imagine I am seeing. The shapes seem to possess movement and purpose, almost like messengers travelling across the surface carrying something we cannot quite decipher.
That is where the title Nature’s Infrastructure came from.
There appear to be networks everywhere within the work: pathways of colour, movement, light, land and water. For a brief moment, the surface has created its own architecture—a hidden world that exists only until the water shifts and constructs another.
Making the Artwork
Ralph Kerle creates his abstract artworks from real reflections found on the surface of water. Working from a kayak at water level, he photographs the constantly changing interaction of light, colour, movement and reflected forms.
The compositions are discovered rather than constructed. There is no compositing of separate images: the abstraction exists momentarily on the surface of the water and is captured through timing, position and movement.
This process has developed into a distinctive body of work in which the camera becomes less a documentary instrument and more a way of painting with reflected light.
THE ARTIST
About Ralph Kerle
Ralph Kerle is an award-winning Australian artist whose work explores the abstract visual world created by reflections on water.
His artworks have been exhibited internationally and acquired by collectors in Australia and overseas. His practice has developed through more than a decade of working directly on waterways, photographing fleeting compositions formed by light, architecture, landscape and movement.
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International Exhibitions
Ralph Kerle’s work has been exhibited in Australia, Europe and the United States, including:
- The Indeterminate Sublime — Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia
- The Water Spirits of Aveiro — Galeria Edificio Antiga Capitania, Aveiro, Portugal
- The Indeterminate Sublime — Kalve Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Drawings on Water — Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Drawings on Water — Espaço Espelho d'Água Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
- Drawings on Water Series 2 — Sagra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- Group Exhibition — WelcomeToArt Gallery, Embaixada, Príncipe Real, Lisbon, Portugal
- 42 Contemporary Artists — Berlin Art Week, Germany
- The Art of Navy — Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Prizes
- Winner — Willoughby Council 150th Anniversary Celebration Art Prize
- Longlisted — Booooooom Photo Awards, Vancouver, Canada
