ROLAND WEIGHT
Roland’s art practice encompasses a broad range of art activities including drawing, sculpture (abstract and realist) painting, collage, teaching, and public sculpture projects.
The realist paintings are concerned with the effects of light reflected from objects and were done from life in a single session. It is important to me that the paint is allowed to build up and move in a loose way that keeps the work accurate and fresh. The direct visual engagement with reality is what interests me.
The abstract paintings relate to figures and landscape. Colour is used as a dramatic device and some geometric symbols form metaphors for spiritual qualities that I perceive in the land. I attempt to build up layers of meaning in combinations that will continue to unfold in complexity with each contemplation.
The sculptures can be viewed as three dimensional drawings using the thrust and delineation of steel to shape the space in and around it.
Figurative motifs are used as expressive symbols to carry spatial and material qualities past the resistance of non recognition.
The figure sculptures are informed by classical notions of posture and proportion.