GROUP SHOW AT PENNY CONTEMPORARY, HOBART

I created three new works for Beautiful Women - a group show at Penny Contemporary, Hobart in August 2018. They were completed in ink on paper and are inspired by scenes from my childhood home.

The Reading Tree, 2018, ink on paper, 210 x 210mm

The Gazebo, 2018, ink on paper, 210 x 210mm

The Bookshelf #2, 2018, ink on paper, 210 x 210mm

Here is an excerpt from my statement for the show:

My work for this show consists of a series of intimate ink paintings based on memories of my childhood home: a sprawling, weatherboard house at Highcroft, with two acres of garden on the south eastern edge of Tasmania.

For me, these scenes are imbued with many years of associations and memories and for outside viewers are made mysterious through the use of ink as the medium and the closely cropped composition. These dream-like images are a still snapshot in time, separated from any sense of narrative or location.

“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space