EXHIBITION HOURS 10–6PM TH–SA & 10–4PM SU

CELEBRATORY DRINKS 6-8PM FRIDAY SEPT 11

Breathing Life brings together three Sydney artists working across painting, works on paper and sculpture, each drawing inspiration from the natural world and our connection to it. The title, Breathing Life, gestures toward both creation and vitality, while evoking the life sustaining rhythms of the natural world. Trees produce the oxygen we breathe, while oceans absorb carbon through vast interconnected cycles of exchange. Forests and oceans work together as the lungs of our planet, a reminder that to breathe is to exist in relationship with the environment around us.

Using diverse materials and processes, the artists bring form to lived encounters with land and sea, atmosphere, texture and place. Their works reflect the enduring presence of the natural world as a source of inspiration, memory, connection and renewal. Together the exhibition celebrates interdependence, care and the joy found in connecting with the rhythms and breath of the natural world.

Deanne Palmer ‘Crows Ash Turquoise’
Deanne Palmer ‘Crows Ash Pea Green’
Deanne Palmer ‘Mini Pods’
Rachel Carroll ‘Pending’ – $3500
Deanne Palmer ‘Crows Ash Green’
Deanne Palmer ‘Crows Ash Orange’
Deanne Palmer ‘Crows Ash Teal’
Deanne Palmer ‘From Here to There is Everywhere’
Deanne Palmer ‘Bushland Blanket’
Deanne Palmer ‘Drawing Breath’
Rache’ Carroll ‘Gadigal Land II’ – $850
Rachel Carroll ‘Bathurst Road’ – $1700
Holly Mahoney ‘Any Minute Now (waves come crashing down) – $1400
Holly Mahoney ‘Shiro-nami 1’ – $450
Rachel Caroll ‘Regrowth’ – $3000
Holly Mahoney ‘Ocean Inertia’
Holly Mahoney ‘Saltwater Pulse’
Deanne Palmer ‘What Becomes’
Deanne Palmer ‘Stone Jar’
Deanne Palmer ‘Bali Waters’
Deanne Palmer ‘Clastic Not Plastic’
Deanne Palmer ‘Rhythm in Nature Series’
Rachel Carroll ‘Twilight Arrerente Country’ – $1500
Rachel Carroll ‘Morning Mist Moothi Country’ – $2200
Holly Mahoney ‘Aonami 2’ – $450
Holly Mahoney ‘Aonami 1’ – $450
Holly Mahoney ‘Aonami 3’ – $450
Holly Mahoney ‘Shiro-nami 2’ – $450
Holly Mahoney ‘Convergence’ – $550
Rachel Carroll ‘Morning Mist II’ – $390
Rachel Carroll ‘Sunrise’ – $390
Rachel Carroll ‘Gadigal Land Dusk’ – $550
Rachel Carroll ‘Morning Mist I’ – $390
Rachel Carroll ‘Hill End Haze Twilight’
Rachel Carroll ‘Twilight’ – $450
Deanne Palmer ‘Lightning Strikes Twice’
Deanne Palmer ‘The Meltdown’
Deanne Palmer ‘As the Rivers Lead to the Sea’
Holly Mahoney ’26-Deep-01′ – $1000

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Breathing Life brings together paintings, works on paper and sculptures by three contemporary Sydney artists who have exhibited alongside one another in numerous group exhibitions since 2021. Their bond and practices are connected through a shared engagement with ocean and earth, and a deep affinity with the natural world – from swimming, surfing and the changing light of sunrises and sunsets, to bushwalking, time spent in the desert and making art en plein air. While each artist approaches this terrain differently, the exhibition is unified by an attentiveness to the living world – from intuitive, energetic making and culturally respectful connections to Country to quiet observation and a celebration of coastal life.