1. Installation View, Camberwell UAL, July 2019.
2. Installation View, Camberwell UAL, July 2019.
3. Installation View, Camberwell UAL, July 2019.
4. The Wisdom that Comes after the Transformation (of Six Persimmons), 123 x 125 cm, oil on aluminium.
4-i. Video, duration 02:00.
5. Undisclosed (Your Silence Never Escaped My Attention), 125 x 127 cm, oil on aluminium.
5-i. Video, duration, 07:43.
6. Cultivating a Commons, 125 x127 cm, oil on aluminium.
6-i. Video, duration, 00:35.
7. Mind Mirror (Step Back and Breathe in the Atmosphere of Your Own Meaning), 125 x 123 cm, oil on aluminium.
7-i. Video, duration, 01:34.
8. This Silent Planet, 125 x 127 cm, oil on aluminium.
9. Grain of Sand, 125 x 123 cm, oil on aluminium.
10. Covenant, 125 x 127 cm, oil on aluminium.
11. Cradle, 125 x 127 cm, oil on aluminium.
12. Out of the First Huge Nothing, 125 x 123 cm, oil on aluminium.
Written for MA Summer Show 2019:
Janet Waring Rago’s practice centres around the act of painting, embodying material with a synthesis that is the result of a long evolution encompassing poetry, nature, and existential ideas of the self in a vast universe (in the face of the blank ‘canvas’). During her MA (Fine Art Digital) at Camberwell, she developed a methodology unfolding the time-based narrative of a painting’s making hidden beneath the final layer, evidencing the ebb and flow that erodes the material’s resistance against the shaping of the work. Capturing successive phases, she creates a visual poetic document of the interior mind of a painting, unveiling the rhythm and fluctuations of a continually adaptive transformation. The emergent videos are synchronously accompanied by poems and phonemes generated by the artist disclosing a one-to-one relationship with material and idea; acting as a filter, she brings together the parallel worlds of motion and sentience in interchangeable forms.