Joy McDonald
Next Iteration
31 May - 11 June 2023
G1
Opening Night
Friday 2 June | 6 - 8pm
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In these painted works, natural forms are abstracted into a series of basic units — lines and strokes — from which are built complex layers of colour, depth, and movement. Mostly inspired by the fractals of the natural world, for example, water, leaf patterns, the microscopic, and so on, the works move away from the literal representation of nature to deconstructed images using repetition of marks to create moving surfaces of colour, which allude to energy fields, wave systems, and other possible patterns.
Artist Bio
Exhibitions: Her art career spans over sixty group and solo exhibitions Statewide.
Publications: Joy’s work has been featured in various publications - Pottery in Australia, Palimpsest Mildura, Friends: National Museum of Australia, and Museums Australia. GRANTS. Joy has also received several grants, such as the 1990 - 2002 Production Grant NSW Arts Council, Australian Theatre Board, and Arts ACT Production grants 2012-2013 for Puppetry and the CAPO Rosalie Gascoigne Grant for Puppetry.
Awards. She received several prizes - the Lyall T Cullen Award ANU Canberra, Inaugural Export Prize Craft ACT, ACT Writers Award for a children’s book in 2014, and a Critics Award Commendation for a Puppet Production 2013 by the same title, The Very Sad Fishlady.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
