Two paintings 500 x 500mm created from scorched custom-wood, (native and non-native tree) charcoal, ochre, mud paste, ash, furniture wax
Group Show at Railway Street Gallery, Newmarket
Text from gallery room sheet:
“The idea for this show began with a conversation about matriarchal rites of passage. Discussion soon morphed into inquiries of ancestral connections and the felt-sense of ‘me’ in relationship with a nature-connected environment. Like the complex root systems of our native and non-native trees, the work in this shared space aims to push beneath the dermis; to be in symbiotic relationship above and below the surface, in conversation with the forces around us.”
The unseen networks – mycelial, alluvial, dendrological, familial,
that connect through histories, landscapes and timelines.
Abbie Read 