SPACE 2 : CORNELIA WEEL & MARIJA NEWBOLD
Exhibition dates. 7 - 18 Sept 2022
Opening Reception : Thur 8 Sept 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm.
Through My Eyes by Cornelia Weel
Painting for me is the wonderfully unique experience which results in a personal style that usually allows the canvas to explode with colour. As a colourist, the last few years were peppered with lockdowns, a sense of isolation on many levels, became my challenge. This can be clearly seen in the two works entitled “HEADS OF STATE“ It is knowing the deepest darkness within the green of life.
The main body of my work for this exhibition, draws upon the CONSTRUCTION that goes into. making up the visuals of our city. However, because I delight in the use of a strong colour pallet, I have chosen to “put flesh” on the cold, empty structures that dominated our skyline and many urban areas.
In isolation, the human endeavours became fixed in my mind’s eye and were able to be merged with shapes and colours which in turn became a driving force For my current exhibition, my art process reflected life situations through a range of acute emotions and chaos leading to a place of calm and serenity. Art became a bridge builder enabling me to continue looking forward.
I am transfixed as I see colour bouncing!
Cornelia Weel
If These Walls Could Speak! by Marija Newbold
The Abbotsford Covent in Melbourne, now a significant arts precinct, has a dark history of the treatment of ‘fallen’ women and their babies in the last century. I have visited this place many times, these days to enjoy making art and appreciating its transformation.
Looking at the walls I related them to people hiding behind their own protective layers, what stories would they share. Like the peeling walls that reveal beauty and character, we too are able to shed and peel away layers and reveal our truth.
On one of my visits, I reflected upon my educational years within a similar convent interstate. I stood alone, remembering how I felt within its walls, recalling some good and some bad experiences, peeling away the layers, the generation of stories and events that lay behind the patina of plaster and paint.
This body of work shows my intention to capture the rawness and beauty, that comes from the peeling to reveal whats beneath the surface.
Marija Newbold
