contemporary abstract painting
Please join us for the launch of Bridie Gillman’s ‘Land marks’ and Julia Robinson’s ‘The Felling Place’ at Hugo Michell Gallery on Thursday 12th March, 6-8pm.
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BRIDIE GILLMAN
Land marks
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BRIDIE GILLMAN
Land marks
Bridie Gillman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is informed by ideas of place, and the ways in which experiences and memories shape our perspective of a site. With her childhood spent in Indonesia, Gillman, in her work, references ideas of place and notions of belonging.
Of this series, Bridie Gillman states: “’Land Marks’ developed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (affectionately – Jogja). Each piece has been made in response to a patchwork of everyday observations – a fleeting moment while on a motorbike or a slower studied observation while waiting for a meal. Translated through colour, these seen things and places become landmarks through which I navigate my way around town."
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JULIA ROBINSON
The Felling Place
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JULIA ROBINSON
The Felling Place
‘The Felling Place’ is a foray into eco-horror and plant horror: branches of the horror genre that stem from our fractured relationship with the natural world and might be characterised by narratives where nature is not only sentient but malevolent. In these narratives plant life may strike back at humans and horror comes from our terrifying encounter with ‘monstrous’ vegetation.
About this new body of work, Robinson shares: “The new work draws particular inspiration from David Lowery’s 2021 film The Green Knight, adapted from the anonymously penned fourteenth century alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
My work brings an eco-horror reading to this adaptation wherein the Green Knight represents the personification of a vengeful nature come to challenge the warmongering humans with an axe – their preferred weapon of choice for ecocide.”
Save the date for an artist talk with Julia Robinson on Saturday 11th April, 1pm.
Pictured: Julia Robinson,
Woundwood (Detail), 2025, axes, jacquard, silk, thread, felt, interfacing, steel, magnets, 100 x 107 x 12 cm irreg. photography by Sam Roberts
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.