Danele Evans

Danele explores the relationship between people and the contemporary built environment. These works make up an extended series which place isolated parts of the figure within urban environments, populating them with abstracted and fragmented representations of disembodied clothing. She aims to reflect a place and position in the world that is undefined, complex and in constant flux.

Influenced by contested spaces, she considers displacement, separation, and divisions to inform compositions with unbalanced spatial relationships. The built structure of the ‘Old City’ of Jerusalem forms the basis of these concerns which is reflected through direct material parallels. The purpose-built, free standing wall which centres this display is an ode to the influence of the remaining temple walls on modern Jerusalem. On and around it hang paintings with careful use of colour and subtle line work to make up a surface of zones with varied levels of tension. Using legs and shoes as a motif, they take on various, ambiguous expressions, arranged obscurely to question the way in which we orientate ourselves and on what grounds we stand. It is through painting a fractured representation of space, punctuated by the body and architecture, that she reflects on the similarity and difference in pattern which powers these arrangements. Driven by drawing, she relocates detached sections of the figure to map a place that doesn't quite fit together.