Exhibitions show interpretations
LOCAL group and solo exhibitions show how artists’ interpretations shape connections and ways of communicating ideas, the subtleties of mark making, botanical detail, and a response to familiar landscapes translated through succulent surfaces.
RAYGUN, 249 Margaret St, is hosting “In Translation” an exhibition originating from Denmark. It includes works by three artists who are part the Hvid [m Archive, an artist collective whose members explore decoloniality, an area of critical theory applied to ethnic studies.
The exhibition addresses colonial, racial, and immigration structures and how the finer points of linguistic, cultural, and historical contexts can be compromised through translation and its interpretation.
The video, “Family Album” by Suada Demirovic looks at migration through the eyes of her mother, a refugee from Yugoslavia. Miriam Haile’s video, “Tigrinya Wealth“uses text in a comment about border politics and the Eritrean struggle for freedom.
Annarosa Krøyer Holm’s looped GIF is a deconstructed geometrical tent shape symbolising colonial expansion.
The exhibition was curated by Louise Lassen Iversen, a director of “meter,” an artist run space in Copenhagen. Iversen visited RAYGUN early last year and came back again to introduce this new work from Denmark.
The Culliford Gallery at the Toowoomba Art Society, 1 Godsall St, is featuring works by the Art Society Printmakers in the exhibition, “Under Pressure.”
Since the Society purchased its own printing press the enthusiasm for this discipline has increased as has the skill base. This is reflected in the exhibition’s polished body of work that celebrates both exploration and discovery.
Drawing and visual design combined with the various printmaking techniques including collagraph, etching, linocut, lithography, monoprint, and the screen print develop a dialogue between imagery and its creative expression.
The exhibition also includes works from the Print Exchange with Migaloo Press.
The Corridor at the Art Society is showing a range of delightful studies by the U3A Botanical Art Group. Subtly nuanced colours, attention to detail and personal interpretation enhance the visual appeal.
The Feather and Lawry Gallery, 4 Russell St, is presenting “Landscape Brushed” an exhibition of paintings by Lynn Munday.
Although the artist takes photographs as memory jogs, the paintings are far from realist documents. They are emotional responses to nature, familiar countryside and the play of light and shadow.
The landscapes of undulating hills punctuated by trees, habitation, and traversed by highways are captured with loose, gestural brush strokes in which the lushness of the paint has an active and expressive role.
The Wilsonton Community Gallery in the Wilsonton Shopping Centre is holding the exhibition “Blooms and Babes’ which continues until October 31.
The gallery is truly a community venue offering painting classes as well as exhibitions. Coordinator Beth Hunter has juggled an exciting variety of works to present an energetic and colourful show that delights the eye.