An Exhibition of New Works by Ieuan Weinman

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     The works were made in a period of time spent in Galle after a return to live in Sri Lanka. It has been 17 years since I‘ve spent time in Sri Lanka, to work on a large group of works. It marks a period of wanting to change the way I think about making work; its inspiration, its subject, its formulation. The work in the exhibition being the first steps in this process. It looks at the local subject matter in the Galle area yet it cannot shed the influence of western influences and training, the works are subtitled by some of these influences, threads that make new connections to different environments.

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     The works are split between the ones where the figures dominate the space and others where that figures are embedded within a larger landscape. The figure works are inspired by being amongst the ebbing back and forth of traffic and peoples across the local junction and surrounds; Kalegana Junction in Galle and the bund at the end of Wakwella Road.

The work struggles with transcription of the information; its hierarchies, its values, its broader importance. It tabulates and fractures, it reorders and also realises for everything that is transcribed, there are hundreds of things missing from in these scenes/works. Each new experience will in some way make another memory slightly disappear.

      The repetition of daily routines, from their humbleness to their becoming something more; a walk to the kuday, the conversation at the corner to the repetition in the act of painting one mark after another, each a step to making something not fully realized even at the completion.