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Kit Wise
Dazzle (COVID)
2021
ink on paper
Dazzle (COVID) refers to the 'dazzle' camouflage developed by modernist artists of the early twentieth century. Naval warships were painted with patterns that disrupted the visual field, in colours derived from sky and seascapes, to effectively hide in plain sight. COVID similarly is an invisible danger, existing beyond vision, at an unknown distance. The disruption of space generated by dazzle designs is comparable to the uncertain location of threat in our daily lives. At the same time, if in one sense dazzle brings sky and sea into our vision, it can perhaps also provide respite.
After graduating from Oxford University and the Royal College of Art with an MFA in Sculpture, Kit Wise received the Wingate Rome Scholarship in Fine Art in 1999, to study at the British School at Rome. In 2001 he received a Boise Travel Scholarship, administered by the Slade School of Fine Art, for subsequent research in New York & Australia. After moving to Australia permanently in 2002, Wise completed his PhD at Monash University in 2012. Wise practices as an artist, art writer and curator. He has held over 15 solo exhibitions in Australia, America and Italy and exhibited in group exhibitions in Australia, China, Taiwan, Korea, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland.
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