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.

Rachel Carroll ‘Twilight Arrerente Country’
Rachel Carroll ‘Regrowth’
Deanne Palmer ‘Bushland Blanket’
Deanne Palmer ‘Drawing Breath’
Holly Mahoney ‘Ocean Inertia’
Holly Mahoney ‘Saltwater Pulse’

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.