Duo Exhibition, Nic + Rebecca, Gallery of Small Things, Canberra, 2025
Paintings created during the Squatter's Residency, The Foundations, Portland
Drawings created during the Squatter's Residency, The Foundations, Portland
Paintings on wooden boards created during the 'Conversations with Clarice Beckett' project
Paintings on cardboard (cornflakes packaging) created during the 'Conversations with Clarice Beckett' project
Paintings created during the Ironbark Residency, the Railway Hotel, Stuart Town
Exhibition Notice
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Text by Anne Masters, Gallery of Small Things, Canberra
15 - 30 Mar 2025 | 7 days a week
Gallery of Small Things (GOST) is hosting its 1st duo show for 2025 with current and new works from regional artists Painter Nicola Mason from Bathurst and Ceramicist Rebecca Dowling from Cowra.
Anne Masters, Director of GOST has curated a selection of current wall works from two residencies (The Squatters and Ironbark both in Central West NSW) and a special project (Conversations with Clarice Becket*) which Nicola participated in. This exhibition at GOST invites the viewer to be drawn into small wall paintings/ drawings filled with observations and responses to domestic settings and light and dark patterns from windows and doors. Nic explains,
Artist residencies and projects are of enormous value to my art practice. Through these, I create bodies of works from my ideas formulated during these time-based ventures influenced by connections formed with places and people.
Whether its little flowers on the wallpaper, potted garden plants cooling down a kitchen or the simplicity of black lines - they will captivate you for their intimacy.
Alongside Nicola's works are Rebecca Dowling’s exquisite everyday ceramic objects. Rebecca’s response to Australian Painter Clarice Beckett’s project* provided her:
… with an opportunity to return to our studios and respond to an element of Beckett’s work or life and reimagine it in our own work …
Rebecca has created new ceramic cups/saucers, pourers and dishes as well as responding to Nicola's ‘Squatters’ residency where ‘I mostly fire with gas to achieve deep reductions with iron glazes, working in a palette of tonal variations'.
The show is open physically to the public from 11am, Saturday 15 March and continues every day to 4pm, Sunday 30 March 2025.
A catalogue will be released at 11am, Friday 14 March so ... (Link to Gallery of Small Things Website - link above and refresh to keep the page current)
15 - 30 Mar 2025 | 7 days a week
Gallery of Small Things (GOST) is hosting its 1st duo show for 2025 with current and new works from regional artists Painter Nicola Mason from Bathurst and Ceramicist Rebecca Dowling from Cowra.
Anne Masters, Director of GOST has curated a selection of current wall works from two residencies (The Squatters and Ironbark both in Central West NSW) and a special project (Conversations with Clarice Becket*) which Nicola participated in. This exhibition at GOST invites the viewer to be drawn into small wall paintings/ drawings filled with observations and responses to domestic settings and light and dark patterns from windows and doors. Nic explains,
Artist residencies and projects are of enormous value to my art practice. Through these, I create bodies of works from my ideas formulated during these time-based ventures influenced by connections formed with places and people.
Whether its little flowers on the wallpaper, potted garden plants cooling down a kitchen or the simplicity of black lines - they will captivate you for their intimacy.
Alongside Nicola's works are Rebecca Dowling’s exquisite everyday ceramic objects. Rebecca’s response to Australian Painter Clarice Beckett’s project* provided her:
… with an opportunity to return to our studios and respond to an element of Beckett’s work or life and reimagine it in our own work …
Rebecca has created new ceramic cups/saucers, pourers and dishes as well as responding to Nicola's ‘Squatters’ residency where ‘I mostly fire with gas to achieve deep reductions with iron glazes, working in a palette of tonal variations'.
The show is open physically to the public from 11am, Saturday 15 March and continues every day to 4pm, Sunday 30 March 2025.
A catalogue will be released at 11am, Friday 14 March so ... (Link to Gallery of Small Things Website - link above and refresh to keep the page current)