KABINETT
CAITLIN LONEGAN – AUTOCHTHONOUS

The Kabinett installation ‘Autochthonous’ centres on a suite of drawings hung on panels, flanked by small paintings.  Each coloured pencil drawing captures a moment of observation from her own paintings, in which the artist is noticing individual elements of the paintings as they develop. The title ‘Autochthonous’ refers to a quality of painting that invites the viewer to be a part of the artwork, as if one is within the image and implicated in the space created by the work. The visual language of the works of the ‘Rainbow Paintings’ evoke the feeling of prismatic light that swirls around the viewer and spatial illusions of depth.
Lonegan’s atmospheric, abstract paintings embrace qualities often thought of as imprecise in highly specific ways.  In her newest series, ‘Rainbow Paintings’, she uses discrete moments of colour, changing scales and textures, and overlapping fields of metallic and iridescent oil paint to represent convincing illusions of space and experiences in time.