Dark Hope (Vector Clouds) 2025; 30 x 40 cm; photo: Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Garden) 30 x 40 cm; photo: Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Sculpted Nature) 40 x 50 cm; photo: Fred Dott
Photo: Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Town Hall) 30 x 40 cm; photo: Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Cut to the Quick) 30 x 40 cm; photo: Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Window) 30 x 40 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope (TV Towers) 30 x 40 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Stumps) 40 x 50 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Regrowth) 40 x 50 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Smokestack) 20 x 60 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Renoviction Alert) 40 x 50 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Cloudy Dome) 30 x 40 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope (Instect Lake) 40 x 50 cm; photo Fred Dott
Dark Hope Series
Dark Hope is a series of small works in oil – it has been some years now so I decided to work in a restricted palette and small scale. I also wanted to explore working looser and more intuitively with these works while bringing out some of the characters I have presented in previous works. I also use spray paint for the grounds of these works. The approach is deliberately minimalistic. I am also diving into allowing a greater degree of dramatic staging to enter, as well as exploring the use of states – a notion associated with photography, in terms of the perceived temporality of the captured image that is set within a frame.
