Genevieve Felix Reynolds

“Felix Reynolds remembers being 'dragged around museums as a kid… bribed with the promise of cheesecake at the end'”

Genevieve Felix Reynolds is a collector. Her items of interest range from antique figurines and kitsch crystal dolphins, to thick 1950s museum catalogues and online archives. “I have folders of images,” she says, both digital and analogue. These images are used to make collages, which are in turn used to compose her paintings. The dual use of the analogue and digital is significant, notes Felix Reynolds. “In relation to photography, the computer mimics the darkroom, but each technology forces you to think about composition differently… both are processes of flattening.”

Felix Reynolds’s most recent exhibition at Galerie pompom in Sydney, which she says is a “reference to the digital screen, the process of abstraction, and of course, photography.” The term “abstraction” describes her process, which involves “different methods of abstraction, from photography to graphic design, as well as the recontextualisation of cultural and historical artefacts.”