Canberra artist Joy (Eftihia) McDonald, is a mixed media artist and painter.She hires out her work nationally. Her work is featured on the Craft ACT (APM) and the ANCA (Australian National Capital Artists) websites. Her ceramic pieces are sold through the Craft ACT shop and FORM craft and design in Western Australia. Early ceramic works may be viewed at COLA.
Four Last Songs Fleurieu Biennale finalist 2008
acrylic on canvas 140 x 130 cm
(On Hire) Songs of Love Bizet & Saint Saens (sound series )
acrylic on canvas 140 x 130 cm
(SOLD) First Rains
acrylic on canvas 76 cm sq (Priv. Collection Sydney)
Asvestochori (textile theme series)
acrylic on canvas 76 cm sq
Reflection (small works series)
acrylic on canvas 30 cm sq
Tzakos (textile series)
acrylic on canvas, 76 sq cm
For local artist Joy McDonald, Canberra’s regimented plantings of street trees are from a bar-coded landscape. She has long been interested in exploring the patterns, rhythms and marks of nature in painted form, and has extended this interest to prints in her recent exhibition “Illusion” at Megalo Print Studio + Gallery from 26 November to 5 December, 2009.
In her works (‘Illusion’), she abstracts the natural forms to a series of graphic units – the dot, the line, the stroke. With these simple coded units she uses a technically simple form of printmaking, to build complex layers of colour, depth and movement. Moving away from representing the natural world in a literal form, the repetition of the small marks creates moving surfaces of colour which allude to energy fields, wave systems and other unseen patterns within the natural world.
Joy graduated from the ANU School of Art in 1997 majoring in Ceramics, sub-majoring in painting. Since then she has worked in painting and ceramics, and now in print. Her work has been involved in corporate hire and she has work in various business collections in Canberra, interstate and overseas as well as the Canberra Museum And Gallery. In 2008 she was a finalist in the Fleurieu Biennale, South Australia.
Ed. by Alison Munro