‘Ground/Passage: Poetic mapping of Russell Island’ presents a textural and visual poetic mapping of the island that has become artist Sharon Jewell’s home over the past decade.
The works from the exhibition have developed from an increasingly intimate view of this world, while at the same time they reflect a more pervasive reverence, expressed through the careful selection and handling of materials, in both sculptural and drawn form. Whilst recognisable forms are evoked – mangroves in particular – it is also the more intuited sense of islandness, such as an awareness of the edge, the rim that characterises much of the work offering a poetic sense at the moment of wonder.
Redland Art Gallery – Cleveland
24 April to 5 June, 2016
Queensland
Writing to myself at home, 2014, paper, pen and found object
Courtesy the artist and Redland Art Gallery – Cleveland, Queensland
