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Angel in the Sky ‘After Mahalia Jackson’ Series trace Mosely’s lived relationship with two granite worlds: Mt Giluwe in Papua New Guinea and the New England tablelands of Australia. Both landscapes are defined by stone, yet carry different climates, colours, histories and atmospheres. Across this body of work, he translates their strata, fissures and weathered surfaces into layered, abstract compositions that move between memory and observation, seeking not just to describe the terrain but to capture its spirit of place.
Rather than depicting a specific view, each piece becomes a kind of cross-section: an accumulation of marks, textures and tonal shifts that echo the slow time of granite and the shifting experiences of moving between places. In doing so, the works hold his dual living experience between highland cloud and tableland light as a series of compressed, tactile impressions, inviting viewers to read the surface as a map of both terrain and self.
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Tim Mosely’s art practice contributes to the fields of print culture, artists books and haptic aesthetics. His work has been exhibited in significant survey exhibitions and is held in prominent national and international artists books collections. In his current studio practice he employs the ‘wilderness’, the autographic touch and the indexical nature of prints to investigate the role of the senses in the reception and evaluation of works of art. He also contributes to the emerging critical discourse on artists books.
Having assembled over 50 artists books during his thirty years of professional practice in printmaking studios he exhibits a proficient employment of intaglio, relief, silk-screening and papermaking techniques. Mosely’s work is held in collections Nationally and Internationally including the British Library in London, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University and Museum Meermanno Huis van het Boek, The Hague, The Netherlands and the Bodleian Library.
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