Davida Allen has been painting for over four decades – her expressionist art style presents a continuous narration of her own reactions in the world. The works in this exhibition embrace the artist’s recurrent themes of life and family with a riot of colour and texture on the canvas – and today, depicting her role as a grandmother, a woman teaching her grandchildren and sharing her wisdom, wonder, humour and love at a quieter time in life.
Davida Allen, Hoping the donkey will take the carrots, 2017, oil on board, 120 x 160cm. Courtesy the artist and Philip Bacon Galleries, Queensland
Davida Allen, Chooks, 2017, oil on board, 130 x 110cm. Courtesy the artist and Philip Bacon Galleries, Queensland
Philip Bacon Galleries
8 May to 2 June, 2018
Queensland
