The Edwina Corlette art gallery has two new colourful exhibitions which feature the best in Australian art and sculpture until May 6, 2025.
In Paradise Garden, Melbourne artist Miranda Skoczek presents her signature large-scale paintings, with many influenced by Islamic or Persian gardens she has visited in India, Morocco and Spain.
Skoczek, aged 47, has taken inspiration from these sanctuaries which have been planted to represent microcosms of an ideal paradise on Earth to create her abstract paintings of gardens and flowers.
She has painted layers of divergent brushstrokes and colours, referring to a library of 130,000 images she draws from whether that be for a memory, an object, a colour, a line, or a generally feeling.
She has an innate sense of colour and is able to layer a multitude of hues to bring surreal, dream-like qualities to her paintings; “colour is life,” she says.
Also for lovers of colour is That Mother Owl is Boss, featuring Yarrenyty Arltere – artists who are renowned for their soft sculptures made from recycled woollen blankets, and hand-dyed with local plants and rusted metal.
The Yarrenyty Arltere artists create works that reveal the stories and experiences of generations of town camp residents at Larapinta Valley at the base of Mt Gillen in Alice Springs.
The artists from there belong to a social enterprise that has been credited with significantly improving living conditions within the community.
Their prize-winning work has been included in major Australian exhibitions including the 2018 NGV Triennial, Melbourne and the 21st Biennale of Sydney.
Yarrenyty Arltere artists exhibiting at Edwina Corlette are Dulcie Sharpe, Rhonda Sharpe, Marlene Rubuntja, Trudy Inkamala, Louise Robertson, Beth Ebatarinja, Patricia Nelson, and Benita Multa.
Edwina Corlette specialises in Contemporary Australian Art and is at 629 Brunswick St, New Farm.
