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CAROLE CORRIE: JOURNEY TO SURFACE

opening night | wednesday september 15, 6–8pm
exhibition | september 15–28

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Standing in front of a Carole Corrie landscape brings you into a primal and mystical relationship with nature. Her latest show is inspired by places Corrie has visited such as Lord Howe Island and Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand’s South Island. Places where nature has been touched only lightly by human encounter.

In ‘Journey to Surface’, we see those environments interpreted through Corrie’s emotional and spiritual response to the land. Clouds and sky, water and mountains are represented in painterly abstractions that evoke a single moment in time and place.

Some of her canvases are like seeing the land emerge through the mist of an early morning when the texture of the earth is soft and the air ethereal. Others have an ancient and timeless quality interpreted by nature’s primary palette: blues, greens and a touch of red.

Accustomed to working directly from nature, the Melbourne-born artist took a different approach this time, making sketches in situ and writing about the landscape and her response to it. “When I came to paint, I read my notes and looked through my sketches and then put those aside. I wanted to take myself back to those places and to be in a meditative state when I’m painting.”

“Carole’s works are very Zen, very calming,” says Kate Hopkinson-Pointer, owner of Gallery@28. “She’s a real minimalist with this amazing layering process.”

Corrie acknowledges the process of discovery in her technique that she describes as “quite subconscious”, immersing herself in the painting and “applying pigment, sculpting, removing and layering the surface with additional glazes, to reveal the rawness of nature”.

The artist fits neatly into the traditions of late 19th century Australian landscape painters. Corrie’s habit of working en plein air in the impressionist manner, connects her to the painters of the Heidelberg school. Perhaps not surprising given that her great aunt studied at Victoria Art Gallery under the tutelage of E Phillips Fox and, more recently, her grandmother exhibited alongside Arthur Boyd.

This will be Corrie’s second solo exhibition at Gallery@28. She also appeared in the group Erotica show earlier this year. Corrie was a finalist in the NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize in 2009 and the John Glover prize, Tasmania in 2008 and her works appear in several private and public collections.

For more information or high resolution images contact

Kate Hopkinson-Pointer
GALLERY@28
0402 144 350
khp@galleryat28.com.au

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