This exhibition investigates how materiality and painting can be used as a vehicle to express and heal from childhood trauma. The series includes large painted self-portraits and smaller matching works. The smaller works are cropped, expressionist masses of paint, the compositions inspired by their larger counterparts. The paintings feature thick swipes of impasto applied by palette knife. While the larger works carry a narrative and can be read quite literally, the smaller works are less representational and require the viewer to focus more readily on mark making. Mark making, evident in both the small and large works, allows the viewer to distinguish an indexical sensibility – that being, the artist behind the mark.
Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Where: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101
