Jan Manton Gallery is proud to show Natalie Lavelle in her latest solo exhibition Ways of Being on display from 9 – 27 March, 2022. Lavelle’s recent work shifts its gaze to the natural world by evoking both curiosity and nostalgia in layers, bleeds and sweeps of white, brown and blue. Each work expands beyond the canvas to suggest a vista of colour, light and material — seemingly both contained and spacious.
Exhibition essay writer Louise Mayhew states, “Thinking of these paintings as transformations of nature operates in two spatial directions: as an endless spilling out and an almighty gathering in. If you stand close to Lavelle’s larger canvases, so they fill your field of vision, you might imagine their washes of colour stretching forever, echoing the vastness as the Earth.”
Natalie Lavelle is an artist whose practice wavers between human and material concerns where abstraction and monochrome paintings have become the foundation of a personal pursuit to re-blur the limitations and boundaries of the traditional easel painting. Natalie has completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours Class I) from the Queensland College of Art (QCA) in 2020, and a Diploma of Visual Art from Southbank Institute of Technology (SBIT) in 2016.
Image: Wordlessness (a sense of the present), 2022, oil on Italian linen, 105 x 155 x 2cm. Photo: Louis Lim
