OPENING FUNCTION - Saturday 08 February 2025 from 2pm to 3.30pm. Free entry.

LOVE IN TRANSLATION

This exhibition, from long time collaborators Sue Acheson and Russell Lilford, has a theme of love - but not as you may think - there are no pink hearts here…Looking at how love is used and abused, and the many kinds of love there are.

Commenting on the use and abuse of love and how it traps us into certain acts. There is joy and pain reflected in the exciting paintings and ceramic sculptures.

Sue Acheson

Sue's sculptural forms are a reflection of the natural world around her. Subjects she reflects on include personal (Love of Self), political (Love of Power), environmental (Love of Country) or related to community (Unconditional Love).

The energy of the Earth has a profound effect on all of her work, as does the Australian bush. The calligraphic marks often made as decoration are graphic representations of the light and shadow falling through trees, especially early morning and late evening.

Russell Lilford

Russell is on a quest to expand his visual language, to widen a lexicon that includes the emotional, spiritual and philosophical in his paintings. He presents work that facilitates a connection with people that allows ideas and quandaries to be transmitted. The viewer is able to read his work in many different ways depending on your perspective, and may open up meaningful dialogues to a vast array of thought.

OPENING EVENT: Sunday 12 Jan - 2 to3.30pm

BRONWYN TEESDALE

I have  painted with various mediums most of my life but the last few years have settled on water based pigment for its fluidity and ability to enhances my work in unexpected ways.  The ochre based works were totally up to the pigment to decide on the outcome. I had no preconceived idea at all. Even with the more traditional watercolours the paint blends and moves with a life of its own.

My interest and working life has always been the environment and my paintings try to demonstrate the beauty all around us if you can look to see it.

Lindy and I have been involved in art groups and exhibited together before and although our work is very different the variety gives an interest for everyone.

LINDA SENHENN

Living a sustainable life for me is a ‘thread’ thing. Threads are essential and my art pieces are sculpturedaround threads of recycling, reusing and reforming.These textile forms are held together by threads which areused to bind, hold, weave or for decoration.

Thirty years ago I started tearing, twirling and trussingscraps of my clothes into woven 3D forms, influenced byplaces I have lived: urban Melbourne, remote NorthernTerritory as well as Bass Coast.

In this exhibition I have reused everything: weft threadsand fabric; paper carry bags in weavings; boxes andbaskets made from paper resourced from encyclopaedia; found objects as stencils for mono prints.

I wish to express the rawness and edginess I feel aboutclimate change as it affects our natural world and my frustrations as a human to deal with society’s waste.

Changing form, structure or function of a material withan aim to conceal, to play…this is integral to my work.

Linda Senhenn 11/2024

contact: 0438859254

lindasenhenn@gmail.com

OPENING EVENT: Friday 13 December, 5-6.30pm