Earthly Tales – Gallery152, York, Western Australia

Earthly Tales brings together three bodies of work to tell a story about migration, the role of the feminine, the environment and place. The works include Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, pastel drawings from the Wallflower Series and collages from the Fish out of Water intervention project which features the sardine painted on gum leaves. This exhibition is my first in Western Australia and introduced my work to a new audience and in a new environment. I was particularly interested in showing Fish out of Water – Murray Cod in its entirety for the first time and to gauge its response amongst a community that is reliant and aware of its own river system, the Avon River. This exhibition was also combined with a two week residency in which I based on the Avon River and the environment. This will result in an exhibition of works in York in October, 2018.

Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

Detail - Goolwa. Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

Detail – Goolwa. Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

 

Detail - Swan Hill. Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

Detail – Swan Hill. Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

 

Detail – Bonegilla. Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

Detail – Bonegilla. Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Installation View, Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, Colour photographs, each 40h x 60w cm, edition of 6, 2015 and Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

Installation View, Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, Colour photographs, each 40h x 60w cm, edition of 6, 2015 and Fish out of Water – Murray Cod, 9 redgum shelves individually etched, 9 colour photographs, and 9 petrified redgum forms and gouache. Each component measures, approximately 23h x 30w x 25d cm, overall dimensions variable, 2015

 

Installation View – Wallflower – Precious Blossom, pastel on paper, 80h x 80w cm, 2010, Wallflower – Meow, make me purr, pastel on paper, 80h x 70w cm, 2011. Fish out of Water – A Visitor, gouache, and pages from "The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of Australia" 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Eucalypt, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from "The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of Australia" 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Fishing, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from "The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of Australia" 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014.

Installation View – Wallflower – Precious Blossom, pastel on paper, 80h x 80w cm, 2010, Wallflower – Meow, make me purr, pastel on paper, 80h x 70w cm, 2011. Fish out of Water – A Visitor, gouache, and pages from “The Reader’s Digest Complete Atlas of Australia” 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Eucalypt, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from “The Reader’s Digest Complete Atlas of Australia” 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Fishing, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from “The Reader’s Digest Complete Atlas of Australia” 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014.

 

Installation View - Fish out of Water – A Visitor, gouache, and pages from "The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of Australia" 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Eucalypt, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from "The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of Australia" 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Fishing, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from "The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of Australia" 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014.

Installation View – Fish out of Water – A Visitor, gouache, and pages from “The Reader’s Digest Complete Atlas of Australia” 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Eucalypt, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from “The Reader’s Digest Complete Atlas of Australia” 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014. Fish out of Water – Fishing, gouache, gum leaves, and pages from “The Reader’s Digest Complete Atlas of Australia” 1968 edition, 12 x 12 cm, 2014.

Installation View, Wallflower – I can feel you watching me #1, pastel on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2013. Wallflower – I can feel you watching me #2, pastel on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2013. Wallflower – I can feel you watching me #3, pastel on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2013 with Circuit Magazine in the foreground.

Installation View, Wallflower – I can feel you watching me #1, pastel on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2013. Wallflower – I can feel you watching me #2, pastel on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2013. Wallflower – I can feel you watching me #3, pastel on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2013 with Circuit Magazine in the foreground.

 

Review by William Yoeman, The Western Australian, Saturday 15 July, 2017

Review by William Yoeman, The Western Australian, Saturday 15 July, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farewell York and Gallery152. In the window, Wallflower – The Last Belle, pastel on paper, 80h x 80w cm, 2010

Farewell York and Gallery152. In the window, Wallflower – The Last Belle, pastel on paper, 80h x 80w cm, 2010

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