Branches, root forms, and found objects drop down or are carried up into Gabrielle Courtenay’s hands by coincidences or conspiracies of the world beyond her as she walks across urban parks, coastlines, and her own and others’ homes. In Following the moonlight path, she shares a richly symbolic body of work created in the past two years, expanding on the cosmology she has crafted over four decades of practice. Across paintings and sculptures, she moves organic materials and forms towards a more abstract, more intricate, mysterious state of beauty.
Gabrielle Courtenay, Rhapsody in green #1, 2023. Courtesy the artist
Sheffer Gallery
21 June to 1 July 2023
Sydney
