New Beginnings
Ross Creek Gallery, January 6th to 21st 2024
This show celebrates my first year of motherhood and all the new beginnings I’ve experienced in the last year. Each landscape is inspired by the beautiful and many drives taken around the Ballarat area since moving here in 2020. The colours and patterns are chosen purely based off emotion and feeling, creating landscapes that allow me to process and express what is happening in the now.
Upon my first trip to the NGV with my baby, I spotted a Rothko that never spoke to me before. This time, I read the text next to it and decided to carry those words with me while creating these works,
‘As he told Selden Rodman in an interview published in 1957, ‘I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on – the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them, and if you … are moved only by their colour relationships, then you miss the point’.’
Each landscape is a portal into another world, a glimpse of emotion, a little window to hang on your wall and transport you to a place or feeling that you might find.