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- Belinda Kiernan
Belinda
Kiernan
Constructing the Sublime
“The Sublime emerges… / …only as an instant of creative intensity, derived not from God, nature, or indeed from the mind, but rather from the event of artistic creation. The sense of the beyond, that is, is nothing other than an effect of oil on canvas”. (Philip Shaw, ‘The Sublime’)
The Sublime landscape is presented to us as a constructed backdrop. As technology replaces traditional methodologies as mediator of the landscape, it suggests that now the sublime landscape may only be accessible to us through the boundaries of technology. My work references early 19th Century Sublime artists, combining the look and feel of early classical constructs with contemporary ‘wilderness’ landscapes. Departing from conventional composition, I am contextualizing the experience by recreating a reference to the sublime. Questioning any notion of the sublime that we seek to comply with contemporary landscape and encapsulating what it means to understand this phenomenon.