Despard Gallery is excited to host the inaugural solo exhibition of emerging artist Zoe Grey.
“My home, Marrawah, is on the far North-West tip of lutruwita/Tasmania. It is a raw and rugged place, open to the Southern Ocean and roaring winds. I grew up there, immersed in the land and the sea. When painting, I call out to my intimate experiences of that place; to the trees that bend in the strong westerly, to the distinct shape of the mountain, to the rough rocks I cross over to reach the sea and to the soft pigface that carpets the coast.
For now, I live away from Marrawah. As the distance between us grows, so too does my desire to reconnect, through gestures of paint, to my memories and understanding of that place. It is an evolving relationship, that Thanks to a place I knowobserves.
I pay my deepest respects to the traditional owners of the land my work was made on, nipaluna/Hobart, and the land my work is about, Marrawah. I acknowledge Preminghana, often portrayed in my paintings, as a place of great significance to Tasmanian Aboriginal people.” – Zoe Grey 2020
Zoe Grey is an artist from Marrawah, Tasmania. Her paintings explore a deep connection to home, translating the complexities of memory and place through bold gestural landscapes. Zoe graduated with First Class Honors from the University of Tasmania, School of Creative Arts and Media in 2018.
PART 2 – Listen to Zoe Grey discuss the painting ‘Mountain (Near)’ in depth.
EXHIBITION IMAGES
#1 One and Only 2020
oil on canvas 135 x 90cm SOLD
#10 Remembering Rocky Shores #2 2020
oil on board 80 x 61cm SOLD
#12 Inland and Back 2019
oil on board 83 x 61cm SOLD
#2 Where I Walk 2019
oil on canvas 145 x 123cm SOLD
#5 Down The Front Where I Go 2019
oil on board 120 x 90cm SOLD
#11 Mountain (near) 2019 Oil on board
100 x 122 cm SOLD
#26 Between the River and the Lighthouse 2019 Oil on board 61 x 81 cm SOLD
#3 Windy and White 2019
oil on canvas 120 x 152cm SOLD
#4 The Sun Shines On Windy Water 2019
oil on board 90 x 122cm SOLD
#6 Carpet Coast 2019
oil on board 90 x 122cm SOLD
#7 Just A Breeze 2019
oil on canvas 120 x 90cm SOLD
#8 A (Re) Call To Home 2019
oil on board 112 x 91cm SOLD
#13 Mountain (Far) 2019
oil on board 122 x 90cm SOLD
#14 North-Easterly Grass 2019
oil on board 61 x 63cm SOLD
#15 Remembering Rocky Shores #1 2019
oil on board 80 x 60cm SOLD
#16 Washed Up 2019
oil on board 112 x 90cm $2,750.00. SOLD
#17 Where I Walk Again 2019
oil on board 80 x 60cm SOLD
18 ZOE GREY A Tree I Know #4 2019 oil on board 63 x 61cm SOLD
#19 Old Tea Tree 2019
oil on board 40 x 30cm SOLD
#20 A Wattle Near Me 2019
oil on board 40 x 30cm SOLD
#22 A Good Gum 2019
oil on board 30 x 40cm SOLD
ZOE GREY A Known Breeze 2019 oil on canvas 198 x 237 cm $8,750.00
ZOE GREY Marrawah 2018 oil on canvas 197 x 236 cm SOLD
#25 Drawing on Home 2019
oil on board 57 x 42cm SOLD
#26 Between the river and the lighthouse 2019
61 x 81 cm oil on board SOLD
ZOE GREY Past Post Office Rock (Walking) 2019 Oil on board 81 x 63 cm SOLD
VIEWING ROOM
Use our virtual viewing room to observe Zoe Grey’s work in context to scale.