Judith Mason

Notes

"Mason-Attwood's immense flexibility as an artist is demonstrated in this vast and chilly landscape captured with broad sweeps of thin paint impressed with cloths to leave prints or simply dripping randomly. By juxtaposing the landscape with the intricate realism of the rope suspended in the foreground, a vertiginous and unsettling sense of space is created reminding the viewer of the compelling power of illusion. The rope has a highly iconic quality and is a symbol drawn from the reservoir of religious and literary reference that Mason-Attwood has cultivated in her work."¹

^1. Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, unpaginated.

Literature

Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated, cat. no. 28.

Provenance

Property of a Gentleman.