Title

G.W. Bot: Glyphs. [2007].

Venues

Hart Gallery (26 April 2007 – 16 May 2007)

Date

(2007)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: London.

Web address

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

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

One of Australia’s most admired artists, GW Bot has described her latest body of work as a “dialogue between silences and spaces and the landscape of glyphs”. The term Australglyphs brings together the idea of ‘austral’ meaning ‘southern’ and ‘glyphs’ meaning ‘signs’. Combined they describe a language of the Australian bush, a metaphorical language which, although derived from the landscape, hints at many different meanings. Like a sequence of visual poems, the series of work maps a spiritual terrain as much as a physical landscape. Gestural marks and rhythmic notations are threaded sparsely through the work, reminiscent of ancient pictographs or hieroglyphics, and describe a winding trail from the known landscape toward a psychological hinterland that lies somewhere between the sensorial and the visual, the abstract and the real. In the distillation of shapes and shadows we see elements of an Australian landscape, and at the same time recognise a more universal, maternal world of memory, death, love, nurture and protection. In all variations of her work, through linocuts, drawings and bronzes, GW Bot marries a mastery of technique with unlimited creativity and intuitive sensitivity. To follow her journey is to be enriched by constant discovery.

[Beaver Galleries media, 2007].

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04 Aug 2024