White Light: Loss

Queen Victoria Women’s Centre

Bullock’s latest body of work White light: Loss explores the impact of climate change. Her canvases and etchings are marked by an intense white energy which pierces skies, bleaches foliage, veils and floods to the point of abstraction.

The works are informed by catastrophic loss of wildlife and natural habitat, ultimately caused by the impact of human activities. Bullock’s series evokes a sense of loss and rupture, where whiteness cuts or seeps across forms, distorts fluttering wings; or where the sensual line work is akin to a life force ducking and weaving across the surface. The veils and translucent layers of glazed over painting and layered aquatint, create a haunting sense of time passing and loss.

White, the reflection of all visible light, is dominant and all pervasive in both canvases and etchings. For Bullock it is a metaphor for energy, blindness, pollution and destruction.