Floor Talks: Natalie Lavelle, Emma Thorp & Joyce Watson

To celebrate the first day of the new exhibitions at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery join Natalie Lavelle, Emma Thorp & Aunty Joyce Watson for a roving discussion within the exhibition.

Natalie Lavelle: In the Making

In the Making captures the evolving artistic practice of Brisbane-based artist Natalie Lavelle, bringing together early experiments in abstraction and colour field painting with large scale monochromes and new works that expand into spatial installation.  Raised in Hervey Bay, this is Natalie Lavelle’s first major exhibition on the Fraser Coast and the first survey of her practice to date.

Emma Thorp: The In Between

Emma Thorp’s practice humorously takes on these daily interactions and mundane tasks and makes them her artistic subject matter, fusing her work as an artist and mother.  'The In Between' is an exploration of the challenges of motherhood as an artist, tackling the complicated desire to carve out time for oneself and art ‘in between’ life’s responsibilities.

Joyce Watson: Family and Country, many people's stories

Aunty Joyce Watson explores her ancestral connection to Waanyi Country in North West Queensland.  Watson's work across textiles, sculpture, bronzes, drawing and printmaking draw on the artist’s matrilineal history, reflecting on the power of storytelling in the continuation of cultural knowledge across generations.

This will be the first day to see the shows alongside the ongoing exhibition National Interests: Australian Art in the 20th Century.

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Image: Emma Thorp, Selection of Socks from One of Each, acrylic paint and coloured pencil on shaped ply.