Behind Closed Doors: Interior landscapes
A study of scale, context and domestic objects exploring perception and emotional landscapes.
Using scale and perspective, the artist creates hyper-real, imaginary indoor landscapes derived from sublimated aspects of our private environments.
The result is saturated dreamscapes that hint at a domesticity simultaneously personal and universal, familiar but also unsettling. Out of focus and divorced from context, they invite us to co-imagine what lays beyond the landscape's view.
Domestic objects and environments shape and contextualise our private world. The artist seeks to reveal the power of these settings and their relationship to the realms of nature and society.
Behind Closed Doors is a meditation on liminality and the inextricable links between inner and outer landscapes, interior and exterior worlds.
It takes the forgotten spaces in our homes — where walls, floors and furniture meet, as a starting point for exploring interiority.
These fantasy landscapes encourage a detached view of an interior space - and our interior lives, in the same way one might survey a panorama of land stretching to the far horizon. In these interior landscapes we can become momentarily untethered and free to roam the timeless space we inhabit between reality and dreams.
Tonight The Sky Finds Me As I Am, Tyler Moorehead, 2024, 115cm h x 80cm w.
Acrylic on photographic print on wood and ancient wood frame.
The piece connects the dark night of the sky with the dark night of the soul and locates them in an imaginary middle-space that could be a possible past and might be a possible future.
Before The Rising I Await, Tyler Moorehead, 2024, 115cm h x 80cm w.
Acrylic on photographic print on wood and ancient wood frame.
Attendant to Surrounding Wonder, Tyler Moorehead, 2024, 115cm h x 80cm w.
Acrylic on photographic print on wood and ancient wood frame.
Basking In The Warmth Of My Unfurling, Tyler Moorehead, 2024, 115cm h x 80cm w.
Acrylic on photographic print on wood and ancient wood frame.
Holding Is the Harder Thing, Tyler Moorehead, 2024, 115cm h x 80cm w.
Acrylic on photographic print on wood and ancient wood frame.