Dionisia Salas, In the hellebores, 2024, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm. Photo: Stephen Best. Image courtesy and © the artist.

Of mouth and mind sees Braidwood-based artist Dionisia Salas explore the interplay between the physical and psychological aspects of the lived experience.

Salas’ energetic compositions are at once depictions of the landscape, the body and the mind. The works in the exhibition dip in and out of figuration and abstraction. Across paintings and drawings, these works straddle the divide between alluring and abject. Salas’ seductive colours and sumptuous forms entice audiences, with loose and automatic mark making expressing desire, movement and ecstasy. Through colour and texture, the works simultaneously allude to hair, bruises, blood and breath.

Opening night: 22 November 2024, 6pm