On Now and Coming Soon

In The Glow Of Green, solo exhibition, Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW

4 August – 26 November 2023

My two-week residency on Bundjalung Country, based at the Nancy Fairfax AIR studio at the Tweed Regional Gallery in September 2022, was a deeply immersive research period. It was full to the brim with walking, writing, photographing, drawing, thinking, smelling, feeling, being. Every day I went to one of the close by national parks including Springbrook NP, Border Ranges NP and Lamington NP, and I walked for hours. I walked not in the usual way that I walk, briskly, pushing my body, feeling my muscles work, but slowly, carefully, quietly, stopping frequently, silently electrified by my surroundings.

The exhibition I am creating from this time to be shown at Tweed Regional Gallery in August 2023 will be a collection of studies expressed in small to medium-sized glass objects carrying my version of the patterns, rhythms and textures that I experienced. It was the detail of surface growths and coverings that I was drawn to, particularly moss, lichen and bark, of which there were rich pickings. I experienced these as part of the the layering of time, the life, death and decay and re-generation that was ever present in the forests, my eyes and total being drenched in the glow of green.

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