ENAMEL & STEEL SCULPTURE

'LIVES OF SPACES' West Gallery, Quay Arts 2012 Large-scale steel and vitreous enamel sculptures - these begin as delicate paper maquettes that are constructions of small clusters of individual sheets that are deftly cut and torn, coloured with paint and delineated with graphite. There is a lightness and poise to these objects that suggest they capture a fleeting, transitory moment of vision. The revelatory nature of her compositions in space embodies Traxler’s journey from the canvas to the factory and echoes the journey that she has embarked upon in her own life. She lives in an environment where anything seen in her surroundings can trigger an imagistic, compositional or painterly response. (Jonathan Parsons) For Traxler, an art piece is the experienced, felt and intuited world – a connection with her own immediate surroundings and way of life.’ (Jonathan Parsons – ‘Space Lived’)