Double Opening: Jessie Nash and Holly Anderson

please join us for a double opening to celebrate exhibitions of new paintings by brisbane-based emerging artists jessie nash and holly anderson on friday, 9 august, 6-9pm at newstead studios.

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jessie nash is an emerging artist based in brisbane whose practice is primarily rooted in oil painting. many of her expressive works feature self-portraits and document uncanny moments, alluding to everyday experience. she explores the push and pulls between the contemporary practice of a female artist and the expectations of traditional formal art practice. often toying with the ever-changing relationship between the artist and the sitter, her expansive paintings consider the nature of the relationship between a photograph and a painting.

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holly anderson is an emerging artist based in brisbane, working primarily with painting as a practice for investigating anxious bodily and psychic sensations. an awareness of the body as a form messily embedded within threatened ecologies belies this interest. with continual reference to the bathers and sunlit landscapes of classical romantic landscape painting, various ways the body might be more strangely implicated in these systems are tentatively explored.

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our opening events are generously supported by young henrys and mcphersons wine.