LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Josh Foley
An interview by Katherine Williams , curator and Josh Ryder , curator landescape @ europe . com
Artist Josh Foley ' s work challenges the haptic expectations and bodily position of the audience . His works give way to a trompe l ’ oeil visual effect , one that simultaneously excites and soothes any viewer , to create perfectly balanced abstract pieces . One of the most impressive aspects of Foley ' s work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to disrupt the usual relationships that someone viewing a painting has to create a schism within their mind and in turn the corporeal reality they are situated in . We are very pleased to introduce our readers to his multifaceted artistic production .
Hello Josh and welcome to LandEscape : before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background ? You have a solid formal training and you hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Art ( Hons ), that you received from the University of Tasmania . How do your studies influence your evolution as an artist ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general ?
The degree I undertook gave me a comprehensive understanding of the parameters of and underpinnings of contemporary art and knowledge about the birth of modernism – which have been invalauble for exploring my own ideas . Aesthetic “ problems ” are the core of what I ’ m interested in but also how they relate to material matters and how the physical and the intellectual intertwine and affect each other .
Your approach is very personal and your technique condenses a
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