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Jan Palethorpe: Vanishing Point

March 22, 2023 - April 15, 2023

Courtesy: the artist and Tacit Art, Melbourne.

“When Jan Palethorpe takes up an idea, her commitment to it is profound. In Vanishing Point, she has taken up nothing less than the state of the world – or more precisely, the Earth – in our time. It’s a theme that unites her genuine love of nature, her awareness of the challenges that face humanity, her deep knowledge of art history and the magic of her own art practice which brings together these concerns in a kind of apotheosis that has been decades in the making.

Palethorpe’s interest in the natural world has always been evident in her work. A decade before she won the 2005 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize (Works on Paper), she was exploring her relationship to the land through artist’s residencies in the Kimberley, where she lived for three years and witnessed the deep connection to Country of the local Indigenous peoples. There she saw the devastating impact of colonisation on the land and her credentials as an artistic eco-warrior have been developing ever since. Notable examples of her commitment to this cause are her 2008-9 Imago exhibitions depicting fragile phasmids, case moths and cocoons, and her 2015 works Rising Tide and Hollow Angel on the Rock which symbolically depicted disappearing angels, the remaining parts of their ethereal forms rendered in exquisitely detailed pen-and-ink illustrations of landscapes under threat from climate change.” – Bruce Beswick, catalogue essay for Vanishing Point, 2023.

Opening Event: Wednesday 22 March, 6.30 – 8pm.

 

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Details

Start:
March 22, 2023
End:
April 15, 2023

Organiser

Tacit Art
Phone
+61 423 323 188
Email
keith@tacitart.com.au
View Organiser Website

Venue

Tacit Art
191-193 Johnston St, Collingwood
Melbourne, Victoria 3066
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Details

Start:
March 22, 2023
End:
April 15, 2023

Organiser

Tacit Art
Phone
+61 423 323 188
Email
keith@tacitart.com.au
View Organiser Website

Venue

Tacit Art
191-193 Johnston St, Collingwood
Melbourne, Victoria 3066
+ Google Map