Ayers Rock is by point of reference a place visited by coach loads of tourists on a photo stop opportunity. Tourists are set against the backdrop of the ever-changing colours of Ayers Rock and remain constant in the produced watercolours. The created watercolours are 30 minute studies of people in place and are typically the size of a 7”by 5” photo.
These works originate from popular web photo sites and reworked into watercolour giving the impression that I am a subject to the location of Ayers rock happily painting tourists on site.
“....Shelton’s work deals with figure in an often absent landscape, using scant topographical points of reference. Her figures, sourced from life, photographs and the internet become the landscape.
Her work contemporises the language developed at the turn of the 20th century of photography extending and informing the painted image. It is voyeuristic social observation in a minute a beautifully selective way...”
Sally Annett FringeMK 2009
A series of work that examines cultural tourism. ‘Ayers Rock’ bears no relationship to Uluru Rock a spiritual rock for the Aborigines
