Martha Beaumont — Works on Paper 2021

Using the expansive American landscape as a backdrop, Martha creates imaginary scenes that explore the relationships between reality and fiction, the natural and the man-made.

Martha’s recent work focuses in on site-specific art that she has visited in the South West states - Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels and Donald Judd’s installations in West Texas being the most impactful. Martha started creating scenes of imaginary minimalist Land Art in the desert setting, drawing from a wide variety of sources - colour interactions of Joseph Albers, sensory experience of James Turrell’s colour-changing light art, minimalist architecture and geometrically shaped everyday objects such as staples, building blocks and flags. By combining these forms with the remote desert setting, Martha plays with notions of perception and perspective, exploring how these forms punctuate the landscape and alter its sense of vastness.