SUE NINHAM

'Site', 2006, 80 x 100 cm, was the catalyst for this body of work. It features a shape I have painted often. In this work, however, it was used in a dominant way, whereas prior it was always small, like a little punctuation mark of some kind. It comes from my exploration of ’50s motifs but with this painting, it took on a life of its own.

Author and art critic John Neylon, wrote that it reminded him of work from the St. Ives Group in England (’50s).

As a society, we are familiar with the circle overlayed with a cross as a graphic symbol; sometimes its connotations are comforting, sometimes sinister. It appears on computers, maps, surveillance cameras and on packaging. It denotes a location, a specific point, a place.


– Sue Ninham, 2008