SUBSTRATUM
Substratum’ examines contemporary practices of working in layers, where systems of representation remerge by peeling back impressions left from places, people, events and memories. Locating itself between foundational marks and their ‘final’ renderings, the group show sheds light on underlying structural forces at play. Here, impressions are drawn from their subjects, and in the markings left behind.
Artists: Thea Anamara Perkins, Christopher Zanko, Chelsea Lehmann, Anna Louise Richardson, Mungo Howard, Emily Ebbs, Elizabeth Creixell and Kristone Capistrano. Curated by Lewellyn Riley-Haynes.
12 - 30 January 2022, Woollahra Gallery Redleaf, NSW
Artists: Thea Anamara Perkins, Christopher Zanko, Chelsea Lehmann, Anna Louise Richardson, Mungo Howard, Emily Ebbs, Elizabeth Creixell and Kristone Capistrano. Curated by Lewellyn Riley-Haynes.
12 - 30 January 2022, Woollahra Gallery Redleaf, NSW
There is no such thing as selfish grief, 2020, wooden veneers (Rosewood, Rock Maple, Sheoak, Jarrah burl, hand dyed Silky Oak) and charcoal on ply, 120cm x 116cm
Death is a universal event that changes you forever. Depicting a Macaque mother grieving for her child, the work explores the common experience of grief paralleled by the natural world. There is no such thing as selfish grief is a meditation on the artist's mother; a vet, farmer, artist and furniture maker who passed away in January 2020. Drawn in charcoal on marquetry, the work draws on techniques, veneers and tools passed down from her mother.
Death is a universal event that changes you forever. Depicting a Macaque mother grieving for her child, the work explores the common experience of grief paralleled by the natural world. There is no such thing as selfish grief is a meditation on the artist's mother; a vet, farmer, artist and furniture maker who passed away in January 2020. Drawn in charcoal on marquetry, the work draws on techniques, veneers and tools passed down from her mother.