This November, Artereal Gallery is excited to present a solo exhibition by Naomi Oliver. Exhibition Opening: Saturday 4 November from 2 – 4 pm. Shift originated as my ‘handmade’ abstract watercolour, gouache and pastel paintings on paper which I scanned and then digitally manipulated using a coded processing technique of ‘pixel-sorting’ that distorts and enhances to creatively convert the originals into seemingly three-dimensional crystalline curtains and mysterious landscapes. I have maintained some balance between the original medium and the pixel-sorted manipulation, so the digital print retains a sense of the painterly yet gains an enriched sense of the romantic, an unexpected outcome from a mechanical intervention. Visual and audio glitches show us a fallible, ‘accidental’ human side of technology. I find it almost endearing and view my role exploiting these accidental art outcomes as a kind of collaboration. – Artist Statement, Naomi Oliver (top image) Naomi Oliver, Gouache 1 (detail), 2023, digital print on Hahnemuhle photo rag, 59.4 x 84.1 cm Naomi Oliver, Watercolour III, 2018-23, digital print on Hahnemuhle photo rag, 59.4 x 84.1 cm