Penny Mason

As mentioned in an earlier highlight Penny Mason exhibited at RAFT Art Space in Hobart in 2016.

In recent times I have enjoyed the dialogue of the installation of the Pierre Bonnard exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and the interior effect of India Mahdavi (b. 1962) who is a French architect. For the purposes of the Bonnard exhibition she widely celebrated the use of colour, form and texture to provide a wall backdrop highly coloured and orchestrated in room like structures for the show.

Combining these foundational elements of design, she created an immersive environment for the exhibition.

The dialogue seems to fall two ways those that love it and those that don’t.

As a young adolescent, I was fortunate enough to visit Bonnard’s house Le Bosquet in Le Cannet. A highly decorated house as were the homes of Matisse and Monet with wallpaper of strong colour and design on which their works hung. Today perhaps exhibition spaces as have private dwellings are a little pure with no patination.

Coming back to Penny Mason - in recent times her work has reappeared in a private home hallway as wallpaper. In 2016, when exhibiting her exhibition at RAFT she also did the same thing with a display panel for one of her works where the wallpaper was her own design on which her black and white work hung.

The evaluation process is now moving as things do to reconsider all aspects of art and interior design.

https://www.raftartspace.com.au/penny-mason-2016?pgid=kdiclle5-0f0ba7d3-3a78-4934-b8fc-dd050c0f13da