Paul Caporn's exhibition Incidental has emerged out of his ongoing interest in a defiantly indeterminate mode of art production and gathers a collection of works emerging from the past 20 years of practice.
He works with a variety of mediums, often repurposing existing materials to create surprising new forms, such as artworks made of spirit levels, or sculpted industrial vehicles composed of rubber matting.
Caporn notes that the works in this exhibition have "evolved out of a deeper consideration of my different modes of production and the things that happen by chance, serendipitously or as a distraction from a particular path, allowing them to become outcomes, in themselves. I find that this is often where the unexpected and new may emerge from, and is the zone where I get the greatest pleasure from my practice."
[Artist statement September 2019]
Early in his career he studied painting and was fascinated by colour theory and ideas about how we see images via the light being reflected from objects. This drove him down the path of not just representing light through painting but using lights within his work. Incidental will showcase several works utilising light, along with a spirit level sculpture, an inverted carousel horse and a series of giclee prints.
Coincidentally ambient light in physics is often described as incidental and the direction a light ray is reflected off the surface of an object is described as the angle of incidence.
Perhaps it is not incidental that many of the works in this show bring light, painting and sculpture together. They are so closely connected that one cannot exist now without considering its context to the other.
Although he studied as a painter at Curtin University, Paul Caporn is better known for his sculptural works, including public art commissions. He was the recipient of the Sculpture by the Sea first prize at Cottesloe Beach in 2012, his enormous rubber crane, Slump, from his 2009 solo show with us, was acquired by the Ipswich Regional Gallery in Queensland and the Art Gallery of WA acquired his rubber scissor lift [Insupportable] from the AGWA Remix 2011 exhibition. His artworks are also held in the collections of Artbank, Kerry Stokes, Janet Holmes a Court, City of Perth, St John of God, Curtin University, North Metro TAFE, and Parliament House.
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