Join us at the gallery THIS SATURDAY, Sept. 19 from 2pm, for an ‘In Conversation’ style speaking event with Genevieve Carroll, and Richard Perram OAM, former Director of the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
Genevieve Carroll is a fabulous Hill End-based painter, poet, draughts-person and animator. She is also a multiple-time finalist in The Dobell Drawing Award, both for her contemporary unique-state static drawing, and animation works. Notably, Genevieve has recently been selected as a finalist in the Calleen Art Award, at Cowra Regional Gallery, The Glover Prize, Tasmania and the Ravenswood Art Prize, Sydney.
Richard Perram OAM’s brilliant essay contribution to Genevieve’s current exhibition is available to read online; Richard as well as being a curator, arts writer/commentator, and former Director of the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, is also a long-term friend and colleague of Genevieve’s. Please join us at the gallery for this inevitably, engaging discussion, and to meet the artist.
*Suggested arrival from 2pm, for the speaking event to commence at about 2:30pm. *This is a complimentary, ticketed event, and registrations are essential. All welcome. Champagne and refreshments will be provided on arrival. Non-alcoholic alternatives also available.
Excerpt below, from Richard’s accompanying essay text:
This exhibition Inventory of a landscape is a collection of her most recent works which recall 17th century Dutch/Flemish Vanitas paintings in which our mortality (memento mori) is alluded to through fabulous visual associations which provide an insight into her life.
Jugs, rats eerily reminiscent of the early Disney cartoon characters, snow domes, iPhones, a cat from Picasso, dissolving red brick walls and black starry nights occupy her expressionistic landscapes and still lives, and which are all part of the psychological self-portraits she inhabits, (Self Portrait: Just let it out, 2026).
Her paintings are similarly fragmented in which disparate elements are combined to create psychological states, reminiscent of the works of writers Franz Kafka in which a man becomes a cockroach (Metamorphis, 915) or Nikolai Gogol in which a nose detaches itself from a face to have a life of its own (The Nose,1836). So, in Carroll’s case she becomes a ceramic jug, (Self Portrait,2026), one of her most important self-images and reminiscent of the pottery shards she encountered on her Hill End rambles.