Exhibition dates: 9 August – 6 September, 2021
Official opening: Saturday 21st August, 3-6 pm
Painting is akin to growing a garden. It can’t be pushed or pulled. I bring my aesthetic skill set to the paint and canvas, working hard to disrupt my desire to control so I can sustain as long as possible that sensation of exploring the “road
less-travelled”. Through blind alleys, detours, accidents and serendipity, a painting emerges, in its own time and according to its own nature. My task is to be committed, patient and fearless. Only when it is finished and enters the broader social context does meanin matter and its exploration can begin.
I see vessels and a moon, symbols long associated with women. I think how women have laboured, even slaved for and loved this country, through the aeons. Their joys, hopes and resilience are the back bone on which this land has been
shaped and survives. Yet we still struggle to give women the respect they’re due.
Margaret Ellen Turner has an extensive exhibition profile in national and international, private, public and institutional galleries. She has won significant art awards and is represented in private collections. She trained as a sculptor in the
80 and now paints. She says that, while they exist on a flat surface the works are still sculptures – concerned with scale and depth. She has produced 4 major solo painting exhibitions in the last 20 years, been a finalist in numerous art awards including the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, and in 2013 won the Kenilworth Painting Prize. She also mentors fledgling artists.
Words- courtesy of the artist
