Catherine O’Donnell Meticulously Crafted
lad in uniform sheets of fibrous cement (fibro) arranged as a grid, with a surface trim that clearly defines the framework, the reduced form of the fibro house has long been a favoured subject for Australian artists including Christopher Zanko, John Bloomfield, Reg Mombassa, Howard Arkley, and Joanna Lamb. Facilitating reduction, with a squint, the fibro grid is broken by windows and doors, to form a Mondrianlike framework for geometric abstraction. O’Donnell further reduces the elements identifying
