In ‘Precipice’, Canberra-based artist Annika Romeyn presents large-scale prints and drawings; works that initially began with the Bathurst Regional Gallery Hill End Artists in Residence Program in November 2015, where the artist spent her days drawing and traipsing around the Golden Gully. Inspired by the scarred and surreal landscapes of the former gold rush town, Romeyn’s new works explore the mutability of nature and the notion that landscapes are inevitably impermanent.
Annika Romeyn, Solace, 2017, watercolour on paper, 150 x 100cm. Courtesy the artist and ANCA Gallery
Among the works being presented, Solace (2017) showcases the artist’s particular interest in manipulating the luminosity of watercolour to capture natural rock formations momentarily transformed by the afternoon light. In her new print series entitled Chasm (2017), the large-scale monotypes trace the complex and striking fragility of crumbling gully walls gradually eroded by rainfall. Sketching over the “ghost prints” developed during the production of her monotypes, Romeyn further alters the texture of the terrain to reveal its fleeting and damaged state with minute detail by linking the realms of the micro and macro.
Annika Romeyn, Chasm 1, 2017, in studio, monotype on paper, 228 x 168cm. Courtesy the artist and ANCA Gallery
Complementing this exhibition is a live musical response composed and performed by Holly Downes and Chris Stone of The String Contingent on Saturday 21 October at 2pm.
ANCA Gallery
4 to 22 October 2017
Australian Capital Territory
