EXHIBITION OPENING : THUR 27 JUNE, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Name: EXHIBITION OPENING : THUR 27 JUNE, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Start: 2024-06-27T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-06-27T10:30:00+00:00
Location: SOL Gallery

Schedule

Thu Jun 27 2024 at 08:00 am to 10:30 am

UTC+00:00

Location

SOL Gallery | Melbourne, VI

JOIN US THE OPENING RECEPTION
Opening Reception : Thursday 27 June 2024, 6:00 - 8.30pm
Exhibition dates. 26 June - 7 July , 2024
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SPACE 1 -2 : JANE DODGE
Artist finds inspiration in spirituality, uses music as a catalyst for creativity. Begins with meditation, followed by quick, energy-intensive drawing process. Draws with eyes closed, feeling like conducting an orchestra. Works on large scale, physically demanding. Colors intuitively over days, immersed in paints and textures. Sees self as a tool alongside paint, canvas, and music. Receives titles and meanings from spirit. Views paintings as mosaic pieces during creation, sees complete image later. Finds peace and inspiration in creating, feels immense gratitude. Artwork seen as gift for rightful custodians to appreciate deeply.

SPACE 3: KEN WENTWORTH
Ken is a contemporary Australian visual artist based in Melbourne (NAARM). The foundation of his initial painting practice used existing cultural images of public figures from the media and repositioned them into a new allegorical framework, as markers of individual and collective identity, to enable consideration of broader perspectives of meaning.
His evolving current body of work expands upon this via paintings of figure groupings, that are combined with text and installation elements, to encourage consideration of our collective or individual complicity in issues such as climate change, via our apathy, inaction, and susceptibility to manipulation by right wing populist mis/disinformation, conspiracies, false narratives, “alternative facts”, half truths and lies.

WINDOW ROOM EXHIBIT
BRENDA PAGE
My Mother's Mother’ The project is an exploration of the concept relating to transgenerational trauma. It features symbolic "bundles" made of lead crystal, each of different sizes, scattered around the installation space. These bundles are connected by braided human hair, representing the unseen emotional bonds that link generations. The hair, red in colour and intricately braided, weaves a complex web throughout the installation, creating an emotionally charged atmosphere.
Brenda is an artist living in Wurundjeri country, Dandenong ranges, an hour from Melbourne. She has a bachelor of glass from Monash University and studied fine art at RMIT. Much of her work utilises sculptural glass with screen printed elements. She considers glass her canvas and screen printing her brush. Her ascetics reference Victorian memento mori. For 21 years she ran an open access glass studio, Blue Dog Glass. She now spends her time exhibiting, teaching small group workshops and running artist retreats.

Catalogue : Link in bio
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