Title

Tate Adams: Elegies.

Venues

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (21 August 2009 – 4 October 2009)

Date

(2009)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (QLD).

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

“Revisiting Riders to the Sea, Adams has produced a series of gouaches of the final scene in the play. Maurya, who has lost five sons to the sea, now loses her last and youngest son, Bartley. The women hoist their red petticoats over their heads and, following Bartley’s coffin, they begin to keen. Adams depicts these figures in black, the edges worked with a large brush achieving an effect of jagged lace. In these works Adams has captured a visual representation of the “caoine of the Aran Islands – the bitter, songlike lament of the women as they follow the coffin to its burial place. The forms are haunting and unsettling, the heartache and grief are palpable.”

[Frances Thomson, excerpt from Elegies catalogue, 2009].

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04 Nov 2024