{"id":9236,"date":"2015-04-21T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/?p=9236"},"modified":"2015-04-21T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:54:02","slug":"contemporary-art-abbey-mcculloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/contemporary-art-abbey-mcculloch\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary art &#8211; Abbey McCulloch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contemporary art &#8211; Abbey McCulloch<\/strong> (Australie) &#8211;\u00a0born 1975, New Zealand, lives and works in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Abbey McCulloch paints quirky sometimes\u00a0unsettling,\u00a0representations of female figures sketched onto a sparse background. Working with bold colour choices and often highly textured facial features, \u00a0McCulloch creates visually engaging paintings, resulting in figures that entice us, yet stand guarded and restrained within our presence. Raw emotion is presented to us through the use of loose charcoal sketches that work up to the highly worked-up painted\u00a0facial\u00a0expressions.\u00a0<em>\u201cI like the idea of exposing the\u00a0processes and, in doing so, the final product is left with a more\u00a0restless conclusion.\u201d (source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hscvisualartresources.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/22\/abbey-mcculloch\/\" target=\"_blank\">hscvisualartresources<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Abbey-McCulloch-Painting4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9246 alignnone\" title=\"Abbey McCulloch - Painting4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Abbey-McCulloch-Painting4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Abbey-McCulloch-Painting4.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Abbey-McCulloch-Painting4-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Abbey-McCulloch-Painting4-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Abbey-McCulloch-Painting4-400x304.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abbeymcculloch.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary art &#8211; Abbey McCulloch (Australie) &#8211;\u00a0born 1975, New Zealand, lives and works in Queensland. Abbey McCulloch paints quirky sometimes\u00a0unsettling,\u00a0representations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,220,1332,16,216],"tags":[4003,82,40,2629,132,3526,3013,3884,2715,2277,2843,3221,28],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hYQX-2oY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11813,"url":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/zin-limit-paintings\/","url_meta":{"origin":9236,"position":0},"title":"Zin Limit &#8211; Paintings","author":"LilaVert I-I","date":"07\/08\/2016","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Zin Limit - Paintings (Born in Seoul, South Korea Zin Lim moved to San Francisco) Lim works is predominantly cross-over (hybrid) figure in the medium of oil and charcoal. 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