Title

G.W. Bot: A morphology of glyphs.

Venues

Beaver Galleries [2] (6 May 2010 – 25 May 2010)

Date

(2010)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Watercolours, Prints, Sculpture

Documentation

Invitation; 1 A4 sheet list of works

Web address

https://www.beavergalleries.com.au/exhibitions/a-…

Abstract

About the exhibition

The work of GW Bot sees an individual’s path through personal and public environments as an allegory for a passage through life. For the artist, her glyphs are signs and symbols of natural elements that communicate her bond with the Australian landscape, forming a unique language for Bot to employ intuitively. This extensive repertoire of glyph motifs features across both her works on paper and sculptures. In a most basic observation, they are evocative of branches and twigs, and have also been likened to the moth tracks on scribbly gums. Yet her glyphs operate via the links of allusion and association to form abstract landscapes, or more elusively, a map of almost cosmological markings, mapping out the progression of time, seasons or natural events. Common elements include exploring the primal opposites of day and night; fire and water; light and dark; life and death. When observed within this spiritual framework, the arrangement of glyphs becomes an ancient language of the land, encouraging interpretation on an intuitive level. GW Bot’s use of a natural colour palette, strong silhouettes and an emphasis on coarse visual and tactile textures further depict her ‘oneness’ with the land. An increasingly important theme in her work is the celebration and preservation of “… the sacredness of life and the beauty of all creation”.

[Beaver Galleries media, 2010].

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04 Aug 2024