Courtesy: the artist and Beaver Galleries, Canberra.

Through her unique visual language of glyphs, GW Bot maps the landscape – not literally, but intuitively – with her markings always born from personal experience. Continuing the idea of the ‘poet’, GW Bot, as both the artist and creator, cultivates a garden that is a realm of dreams and possibilities. Here she uses her extensive repertoire of glyph motifs to evoke branches and twigs. Her glyphs also reflect more holistic systems of thinking about the environment and map out the progression of time, seasons and natural events. For GW Bot, the garden is at once a space of both loss and hope.

“The poet, like the artist or gardener, tends to the garden – cultivating shoots, pruning the branches and struggling to preserve and celebrate the fecundity of nature. Gardening is an act of optimism and the loss of the garden is the loss of hope.” – GW Bot, 2024.

Opening Event: Thursday 8 February, from 5.30pm.

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