"As an homage to The Royal Hotel's rich early 20th century heritage, I have created a new series of large colourful floral abstract paintings. Inspired by the beautiful botanical textiles of the Victorian era and designs found in Japanese woodcuts, these works are a continuation of a series I called, ‘The Charged Line.’ Each painting incorporates hand-molded electric neon lights that attract the viewer’s eye, enhance, and change the compositions. " - Heidi Conrod
60X72”
Acrylic on cavas with neon tube
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60X72”
Acrylic on canvas with neon tube
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48X60”
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas
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60X72”
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas
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48X60”
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas
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60X72”
Oil and wax on canvas
72X84"
Oil, spray paint, wax on canvas
60X72”
Oil and Spray paint on canvas
Exploring the relationship between light and space, Heidi Conrod’s current series of work The Charged Line sees electric neon tubes integrated with colourful abstract paintings. The stretching colourful lights, hand-moulded to fit individually across each work, disrupt and reshape both the painted compositions and the spaces surrounding the canvas. Inspired by the patterns of everyday life, such as graffiti, fabric, tiles, pavement, gardens, and pottery, the bright glass lights serve as an extension of the abstract forms painted on each canvas, which also forcefully interact with the colours of each painting. Harmony and tension play equal roles; the lights appear at once graceful, balanced additions, whilst simultaneously acting to divide the physical space and alter perceptions of colour and form. Adding an electrical element to painting introduces notions of positive/negative chemical reactions (tensions which create the electric charge itself which powers the light). With neon, positive charges source its power, which are then manipulated into different colours, like choosing a paint colour to add to a canvas. Incorporated with Conrod’s palette, the bright yet soft lights feel at once romantic and somewhat eerie, often as if reproductions of a radiant midday sun or a warm sunset glow. Used commercially since the beginning of the twentieth century, moulded neon lights have long signalled enticement and invitation to passers-by.
60X72”
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas
2024
60X72”
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas
2022
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60X74” (Stray)
60X72” (Swipe)
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas.
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60X72”
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas
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Oil, neon tube on canvas.
60X72”
2020
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Oil, neon tube on canvas
60X72”
2020
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Oil, spray paint, neon tube on canvas
60X72”
2020
Oil, resin, neon tube on canvas
60X72”
2020
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Casein, oil, neon tube, on canvas.
60X72”
2020
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Oil, plaster, neon tube on board.
60X60”
2020
50X60”
Cut wood, oil, neon tube.
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48X60”
Oil, pigment, neon tube on canvas
2021
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32X40”
Inkjet print
Inkjet print
32X40”
Inkjet print
32X40”
Inkjet print
30X42”
Inkjet print
32X40”
Inkjet print
32X40”
Inkjet print
32X40”
CONSTRUCTIONS is a collaboration between photographer Genevieve Thauvette and Heidi Conrod. Thauvette’s self portraits are interpreted by Conrod through the application of hand drawn and found collaged imagery.
Inkjet Print on archival paper.
32X30”
2021
Inkjet print on archival paper
32X40”
2021
Inkjet print on archival paper.
32X40”
2021
The subject matter of this series is Wildflowers. I used a polaroid camera to capture these resilient landscapes where the strength, beauty and naturalism of this native species are on majestic display. For me wildflowers represent nature at its most optimum. They appear faithfully year after year in the most unlikely of places, and despite the harsh surroundings they continue to show up full of grace and beauty.
I paint directly onto the polaroid film, allowing the material to interact with the surface and the pre-existing image until I reach the harmony I’m striving for. I then scan the painted polaroids so that the paint becomes 'fused' to the original photograph. To me these works explore the relationship between the expressiveness of applied paint and the singular ocular point of view of instantaneous polaroid photography and play upon the dynamic between control and chance that occurs in these two mediums.
Archival inkjet print on Canson rag paper. Edition of 15.
Archival inkjet print on Canson rag paper. Edition of 15
Archival inkjet print on Canson rag paper. Edition of 15.
Archival inkjet print on Canson rag paper. Edition of 15.
Archival Inkjet print on Canson rag paper. Edition of 15.
Archival inkjet print on Canson rag paper. Edition of 15.
Archival Inkjet print on Canson rag paper. Edition of 15.
Heidi Conrod’s mixed media artwork draws upon an essence of liminality, a state of “in-betweenness.” Created using a combination of hand-applied paint and digitally-manipulated imagery, Conrod’s fantastical artworks extend an invitation to the viewer to a space betwixt eras, media, and style. Much like the sense of nostalgia and the interactive sensorial stimulation of a carnival or fair, Conrod’s “magic mirrors” mix vintage found imagery and paint within a digital process to engage the viewer. Playful figurative images pull the observer into an imagined time within the mid-twentieth century, while the minimal and colourful painted strokes maintain a sense of the present.
-Rose Ekins
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass. 43X53”, 2019.
Oil, spray paint, Inkjet print, plexiglass
43X53”
2019
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass. 43X53”, 2019.
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass. 44X50”, 2019.
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass. 43X53”, 2019.
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass. 53X43”, 2019.
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass. 50X44”, 2018.
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass.
Oil, spray paint, inkjet print, plexiglass. 50X50”, 2019.