CONSTRUCTED COLLAGE PAINTINGS
Lisa Traxler embraces the partnership of 2/3d form responding to landscape, architectural & historical spaces. Utilising materials often associated with the industrial - enamel on steel & solid paper composite, she crosses the boundaries of art meeting architecture playing with scale through her sculptural works and installations. Her studio practice is a vital element in the development of her work exploring aspects of disruption, identity and cohesion.This dissection & unity are articulated in abstract form deciphered through constructed assemblages & wall based relief collages. Implicit influences from her fashion design background are acknowledged through the use of pattern pieces, surface design & colour - encrypted shape & form working in co-dependancy to create the outcome. These spacial pieces also probe historical influence from WWI dazzle camouflage to WW2 brutalist architectural radar bunkers echoing the upheaval of the present day, our identity and sense of ‘place’.
