ARTIST TALK
Saturday 4 May at 2pm
“These images are my remembering’s of familiar landscapes from my childhood to now. For over 45 years I have driven back and forth from the sea, over the Illawarra escarpment, through Macquarie Pass to Canberra to where I live now. My most important memories were made during those journeys.” – Dianne Fogwell
The otherworldly scale of Dianne Fogwell’s recent work Prescience [acquired by Geelong Gallery in 2023] has embedded an expansiveness to her work that remains in the exhibition Altered Providence. These works are vignettes that probe my memories for moments with those surreal landscapes and demand a moment of reflection. The sheer intensity of detail and abstraction creates a timelessness to these spaces that seem to draw the viewer simultaneously deeper into Fogwell’s history and that of the landscapes themselves. A landscape carefully nurtured by the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation for tens of thousands of years, and cut into by white settlers in 1898 to create the Macquarie Pass. In front of these works I find myself meditating on the timeless, powerful, yet perilously fragile landscapes that in Fogwell’s words are “made up of layers of memories that are sensual, pictorial and emotional”.
– excerpt from Altered Providence text by Reuben Lewis, Musician – Composer – Artists’ Son, March 2024
Image above: Mary Tonkin After, Kalorama 2021 oil on linen 183 x 320 cm We are delighted to share this …
Image credit: Holly Treadaway Congratulations to printmaker, Dianne Fogwell, who has been announced as Artist of the Year at the …
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Above image details: Jenny Rodgerson Mum’s orange cardigan 2024 oil on linen 60 x 40 cm Congratulations to Jenny Rodgerson and …
Image above: Sarah Tomasetti From Balpatta X 2024 145 x 150 cm pigment oil and marble dust on fresco Congratulations to Holly …
Image above (left to right): Graeme Drendel Portrait of Rick 2024 oil on canvas 41 x 31 cm | Michelle Hiscock …
Image above: Janet Luxton Giant Australian Cuttlefish 2021 oil on canvas 120x160cm Congratulations to Janet Luxton who has had two …
Above image: Wayne Eager, Allegory I 2023 oil on linen 95 x 133 cm Wayne Eager was interviewed by Janet …
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