Artist Michelle Cawthorn says that the person she knows herself to be is an amalgam of her experiences and the ‘trace’ that these experiences have left in her memory. Both pleasant and painful, and through representational and non-representational forms, the sculptures, drawings and paintings, she says, are “external expressions of my inner world.” Due to this, Cawthorn considers her resultant artwork to be bitter sweet.
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
17 October to 29 November, 2015
Sydney
Pony, 2015, pen, watercolour, gouache, graphite, coloured pencil, pastel, ink and synthetic polymer paint on Hahnemuhle paper, 108 x 79cm
Courtesy the artist and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
