Exhibition details
8 – 29 October 2024
Opening reception Saturday 12th October 5 – 7 pm
Pam and Adrienne share a love of being outside and a delight for the peace and the drama of wild places. It has been the cornerstone for their art practices across the past 30 years. Both artists paint their contemporary stories of nature in very different ways yet through a similar process of immersion and study. Pam’s minimalist works sing with energy and quiet hope, while Adrienne’s colourist pieces emerge as dreamlike, utopian compositions. Their two collections flowed from conversations under old, shady banksias on the coast and flurries of messages sent between studio spaces and journeys locally and further afield.
Pam Walpole
Pam never ceases to be inspired by her surroundings. From camping in the vast Australian outback, observing the changing habitat in her local area, to exploring foreign countries, she combines her love of travel – always with a sketchbook at hand.
Bold and contemporary, often minimal in style she likes to portray the essence of the natural environment.
The devastation of both natural and man-made disasters often the subject of a series once back home in her coastal studio, that are captured in large mixed media works on canvas or far smaller abstracted works on paper.
Adrienne Williams
Adrienne has always been drawn to wilderness – to nature’s quiet, sheltered spaces and its exposed wild places. Her recent works focus on the joyful moments of walking through wildflowers and in particular the banksias near her home and on the Sunshine Coast. Her practice is an ongoing navigation of connection to particular habitats and site-specific stories. Merging selected landscape traditions and colourist techniques, her plein air recordings are translated into dreamlike, utopian compositions. Adrienne paints these wilderness stories – the miraculous, the beautiful, the dire – through the romantic lens that is memory. Her recent works reflect the quietude of nature’s forms, nestled with the messy beauty of complex plant communities. Adrienne’s works on canvas and paper include drawing, painting and printmaking. She has exhibited professionally since 1999 in commercial and public galleries, and completed international and national residencies.
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