Gang Gang Gallery, 2024 ….
Weaving Ancestral Threads - works by First Nations and non-indigenous artists
Works ...
Artist Statement ...
There are the nanna blankets lovingly handmade by my children’s great gran and gifted as a wedding present. Draped on second-hand chairs - with their own stories, these subjects are poised to be in conversation with the burls and hollows before them.
Inspired by my daily walks with pooch friends in the regenerating post goldmining landscape around me, these burls, and hollows are front and centre in the paintings within the paintings. During these daily bush schoolings, I am conscious of my presence, with my non-indigenous ancestries walking within unceded Wiradjuri Country. Like the nanna blankets, the burls and hollows are portholes for me to thinking of notions of past present and future all connected.
With furniture and paintings staged like theatre props, the bookshelf wall backdrop, and the ever-present electrical cords of my life, I set up this get-together in my studio. Here, I am utilising painting as an agent to mull over how to be and live with the land. I play with how all these elements and thoughts can work together to make a resolved painting. And through the act of painting these paintings, like most of the paintings before them, I question what I am doing and I go through a roller-coaster of emotions.
Inspired by my daily walks with pooch friends in the regenerating post goldmining landscape around me, these burls, and hollows are front and centre in the paintings within the paintings. During these daily bush schoolings, I am conscious of my presence, with my non-indigenous ancestries walking within unceded Wiradjuri Country. Like the nanna blankets, the burls and hollows are portholes for me to thinking of notions of past present and future all connected.
With furniture and paintings staged like theatre props, the bookshelf wall backdrop, and the ever-present electrical cords of my life, I set up this get-together in my studio. Here, I am utilising painting as an agent to mull over how to be and live with the land. I play with how all these elements and thoughts can work together to make a resolved painting. And through the act of painting these paintings, like most of the paintings before them, I question what I am doing and I go through a roller-coaster of emotions.
Gang Gang Gallery
206 Main St,
Lithgow NSW 2790
0408 514 440
[email protected]
Friday to Sunday: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Other viewings by appointment
5 - 21 July 2024
EXHIBITION
Weaving Ancestral Threads - works by First Nations and non-indigenous artists
with
RENEE GAY FORD – KAYLENE BROOKS – ELLY JANE CHATFIELD – JO ALBANY – NICOLA MASON – JESSICA ANN LEFFLEY – PETER SWAIN – CHERYL McCOY – NYREE REYNOLDS
206 Main St,
Lithgow NSW 2790
0408 514 440
[email protected]
Friday to Sunday: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Other viewings by appointment
5 - 21 July 2024
EXHIBITION
Weaving Ancestral Threads - works by First Nations and non-indigenous artists
with
RENEE GAY FORD – KAYLENE BROOKS – ELLY JANE CHATFIELD – JO ALBANY – NICOLA MASON – JESSICA ANN LEFFLEY – PETER SWAIN – CHERYL McCOY – NYREE REYNOLDS