Competitions
Technicolour Street
Instagram: @lucy_odoherty
Website: https://chinaheights.com/lucy-odoherty
Artwork Title: Technicolour Street
Artwork Medium: Oil on linen
Year Created: 2023
Artwork Description:
In this painting I was interested in capturing the patterns present in the various suburban materials as well as the shifts in light and shadows in the early afternoon on the curving corner of an Art Deco house. The cartoonish palette is influenced by the popular culture I was raised on such as the cult classic TV show the Simpsons and Howard Arkley’s iconic suburban paintings.
When painting ‘Technicolour street’ I was also thinking about the similarities between the technicolour film process of layering coloured filters to my own process of painting in layers of shifting colours to create a final vibrant result. I let small amounts of the orange underpainting to come through along the edge of painted lines in order to create a subtle neon vibration that contributes to the exaggerated and vivid palette.
Artist Statement:
In my practice I like to make soft pastel drawings and oil paintings that draw inspiration from memories, dreams and ethereal moments in the realms of the domestic world as well as the landscape. I like to blend oil paint and soft pastels until hard lines begin to dissolve, creating vibrating impressions of objects and places that have the hazy quality of a fading memory.
Artist Bio:
Lucy O’Doherty works with oil paint and soft pastels to create dreamlike interpretations of isolated dwellings, landscapes, seascapes, and vacant interiors. Recalling daydreams and images from memory, O’Doherty often focuses on moments of transition—such as twilight or dusk—when the day dissolves into night, or just before the stillness of night is interrupted by the bustle of the day.
Since graduating from the National Art School in Sydney in 2011, she has exhibited regularly at China Heights Gallery, Sydney, and has held solo exhibitions in Brisbane and Wellington, New Zealand. She was the recipient of the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2016, which led to a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2017.
Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Artist Profile, the Art Gallery of NSW magazine Look, GRAZIA, and Qantas’ in-flight magazine Travel Insider.
