Solo Exhibition
18 September – 12 October 2024
OPENING EVENT – Friday 20 September from 5:30pm. Guest Speaker – Writer and Curator, Maria Kunda.
Despard Gallery is proud to present solo exhibition by contemporary Tasmanian artist Jo Chew. Off the back completing her PhD in 2022 and also being awarded the prestigious Glover Prize for contemporary landscape painting in 2023, Chew will be presenting a new body of work that continues her exploration into how we define our relationship to the landscape, including a broader understanding into the role of dwellings as a metaphor for how the human condition makes us long for connection and a sense of place.
This body of work continues my investigation of the nature of dwelling, particularly in a time of upheaval and uncertainty. Evolving from collaged studies the paintings draw from personal and collected imagery in considering the fraught nature of home. Things stand in for other things, memories, objects, shelters, and images are pieced together obscuring and shifting the ground. A nostalgic bent recognises a longing for some kind of lost knowledge to correct our course. – Jo Chew
More information coming soon…
[Photo – Jo Chew by Rémi Chavuin]
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