Sustaining the art of practice draws on works from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art to reveal links between thirteen artists and the communities and environments that support their practice. This exhibition is an opportunity to consider how artists are fueled by a multitude of relationships: the legacy of family, art historical precedents, community and to landscape and Country. Necessarily, the passions and drivers upon which an individual’s identity is founded are reflected in the work they produce.
Jody Quackenbush, Octopus/deep sea creature mask, 2013, fabric, embroidered flowers, fake pearls, and found plastic. Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, The University of Western Australia. © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Artists include: Maria Kozic, Angela Stewart, Jody Quackenbush, Ruth Tuck, Julia Church, Alison Alder, Raquel Ormella, Amanda Bell, Nalda Searles, Barbara Haddy, Marcelle Riley, Lydia Young, Margret Morgan, Narelle Jubelin, and Helen Grace.
Jody Quackenbush, The butcher shop, Northbridge, 2013, giclée print on archival paper, ed. 1/10, 42 × 59.4cm. Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, The University of Western Australia. © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Western Australia
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
25 June to 20 August 2022
Western Australia
