When visitors enter Simon Finn’s exhibition, Beyond the Frustum, at the La Trobe Art Institute they find themselves surrounded by dark and turbulent waters.
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Simon Finn is a Melbourne-based artist (and avid surfer) who embraces both digital and analogue media in the production of his work.
Time spent surfing and diving in the ocean has had a powerful influence on the artist’s output.
Finn says that “this addiction is a muse, especially its abundant force above and feeling of gravity below.”
While there is certainly beauty in Finn’s gently lapping digital waves and in the execution of his stunning charcoal drawings, there is an unsettling sense of trauma in this exhibition.
The destructive power of the ocean is evident in his toppling watchtowers, charred carvings and the fact that we are looking up at the surface of his waves from the bottom of the ocean.
