Title

G.W. Bot Endangered glyphs.

Venues

Beaver Galleries [2] (7 April 2016 – 1 May 2016)

Date

(2016)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Prints; Paintings; Sculpture

Web address

https://www.beavergalleries.com.au/exhibitions/en…

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

The prints, paintings and sculpture of GW Bot engage with the environment in a topographic and metaphysical sense and can be interpreted as an allegory for a person’s passage through time.On her present body of work, she comments “In my work I view nature and the landscape as active collaborators: they are part of me and I am part of them. For the past four decades I have been based mainly in Canberra and have worked in the landscape on the Monaro plateau and the Murrumbidgee River system. Working for several decades in this landscape I have devised a type of alphabet or language, a system of marks, which have been drawn from literally many thousands of quick sketches that I have made in the landscape. These markings I have called “glyphs”. A collection of glyphs may be assembled to enable me to tell a story, a narrative that comes from the land itself. These glyphs I have realised in a number of different mediums, including linocuts, etchings and lithographs, as well as paintings, drawings and monumental stone carvings, bronzes, steel relief sculptures and most recently ceramics.” A note of urgency is evident in this exhibition as the natural environment is now increasingly under threat.

[Beaver Galleries media, 2016].

Last Updated

04 Aug 2024