Sydney Exhibition
Opens 10 March 6 – 8pm
Runs 11 – 28 March 2021
Artist Talk / Sunday 28 March 2021, 4pm
Introducing new work made during the 2020 lockdown from Scratch Director Carmel Byrne. This series of works explore a range of human conditions extracting expression from the inner world of the subjects.
My work is process-driven in that all of my paintings begin when I capture something special, a gesture or an expression, in my drawings. If I show up & draw on a regular basis I will catch something not planned, a surprise that is always outside my control. It’s through the process of drawing that my own visceral experience can transform and ignite an internal life in the subjects through the painting process.
To expand the narrative from a contemporary context I translate them into characters in Greek Mythology to connect with the ancient history of human self-knowledge, behaviour and peccadillos. It’s the common human experience that I enjoy exploring through these works.
The following drawings are framed and for sale at $320 each
This drawing depicts Min.the (Exhibiting at the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing until 26 March 2021), a naiad nymph that was transformed into mint as described by Greek poet Oppian:
Near Pylos, towards the east, is a mountain named after Minthe, who, according to myth, became the concubine of Haides, was trampled underfoot by Kore (Core) [Persephone], and was transformed into garden-mint, the plant which some call hedyosmos.
Oppian, Halieutica 3. 485ff (Greek poet C3rd A.D.)
