Fathoms, 2023
The word fathom has two meanings. One is a measurement, and the other is a reckoning. Both require an understanding of the shape of the world around us. Chiefly used to measure the depth of water, a fathom derives from the Old English word meaning outstretched arms and measures the approximate space from fingertip to fingertip across the heart space of an adult human. Fathom also means understanding a complex idea. The word offers an insight into the human condition, not as Western thinkers have previously proposed, a state of mind over body or human over nature but a complex weaving of anatomies and minds, human and landscape together.
Curatorial + Co. Woolloomoolo, 2023
Living In Place, Oil on Linen, 138cm x 152cm
The Dance That Made The World, 138cm x 152cm
Fathoms, Oil on Cotton, 152cm x 244cm
As It Was In The Beginning, Oil on Cotton, 152cm x 244cm
Biology of Memory, Oil and Acrylic on Cotton, 152cm x 244cm
The Long View, oil on linen, 138cm x 152cm
The Mariner, Oil on Linen, 101cm x 122cm
Messages Of Consequence, oil on linen, 138cm x 152cm
Non-Verbal Stories, 101cm x 122cm, Oil on Linen
Unchartered Directions, Oil on Polycotton, 132cm x 164cm
The coastal landscape, the environment my body is intricately connected to, offers a compelling sensory field for me to explore my being - this is why I am drawn to it. My painting practice engages a method of cultivated curiosity: slowing down and attuning my senses to the landscape, thereby accessing embodied knowledge that arises from thinking and feeling in unison.
Nature speaks to me in nonverbal languages of light, colour, texture, temperature and tone. These are also the languages of painting which is a collaboration between the sensory body, the mind and emotion, the material pigments and ground. Through the artworks in this exhibition, I borrow those languages to fathom a bond between myself and the landscape: a bond that is both commonplace and mystifying.
Susie Dureau, 2023
World Without End, Oil on Polycotton, 31cm x 36cm
Days Like This, Oil on Polycotton, 31cm x 36cm
We Can Live and We Will, Oil on Polycotton, 31cm x 36cm
Shimmering Sequence, Oil on Polycotton, 31cm x 36cm
Remember In Every Cell Of Your Being, Oil on Polycotton, 31cm x 36cm
Vagus Tide, Oil on Polycotton, 31cm x 36cm
"The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast." Ursula K. Le Guin
"The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast." Ursula K. Le Guin
FATHOMS
Curatorial + Co. Woolloomoolo, 2023