Homeplace

Overlapping motifs of repeated lines have emerged as a visual language from parallel studio making – becoming fully apparent through the trio’s collaborative presentation process. These lines that span Homeplace productively interact with shape and palette to connect the three bodies of work and tether each artist’s distinct interpretation of place and home.

Ahn Wells

These new charcoal and oil pastel works have evolved from earlier work using ink and acrylic paint. Mimicking the gestural lines of ink the charcoal loops are formed by intuition. These works are non-objective and are simply about shape and mark making. Their titles, as all my work, are about my feeling towards my home, family and identity which allow me to make art in the first place.

Alison Smith

Home is a state, as much as a place; it is also those intrinsic characteristics that live within us. I’ve been working with particular lines, shapes and textures for so long now that they take form almost regardless of my intentions. With these new works on paper I have let them take the lead. I find drawing to be the most immediate way to express myself, and allow these qualities to run.

Caelli Jo Brooker

Encircled is a suite of work for Homeplace that extends the visualisation of woven objects beyond observed characteristics towards maker perspectives. Through embodying the repeated wrapped and coiled movements of weaving, these works both depict and deploy weaving’s looping gestures as symbolic motions of connection and attachment. Peering into shared woven forms, a deliberate palette draws on the qualities of traditional and local materials – articulating home as a cultural, familial, and conceptual place.