This exhibition is an exploration of beginnings and endings – of family mythologies, births, deaths, and cosmic cycles. Beginning with a focus upon the minutiae of the everyday in its grainy, gritty glory and then expanding outwards to consider the source of life.
Origins features photographs and paintings such as Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Helen Maudsley’s The Arrival, 1965, and the late Dorothy Braund’s Mrs John Brack and Freda, 1954 – drawn from The University of Western Australia’s Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, the largest public collection of women’s art in Australia.
Helen Maudsley, The Arrival, 1965, oil on wood panel, 39.1 × 41.7cm. Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, The University of Western Australia. Courtesy the artist and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Western Australia
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
18 May to 17 August 2024
Western Australia
