ILDIKO KOVACS

One of Australia’s most respected abstract painters, Ildiko Kovacs is renowned for images that, whilst grounded in her sense of the Australian landscape, are at the same time personal meditations on her life and emotions. Alive with energy and movement, the surface of Kovacs’ works are renowned for their sensual flowing line played against passages of consummate mark-making. Washes of underpainting reveal themselves from beneath layers of colour, while Kovacs’ elegant and bold lines dictate the movement of our gaze across the picture plane.

Kovacs’ exhibition Looking Through sees a new development in the artists work. The lines which defined much of her early works have grown and thickened, in some cases reading more like blocks of colour and form, dividing and dominating the surface of the works. However, what remains consistent in this new body of work is the intuitive nature of Kovacs’ colour work. Vast and numerous layers of colour, under washes and heavily worked surfaces come together in beautiful balance.