A CURATED PLACE

Opening night: Friday, 6 December, 6pm - 8pm
On view: 6 - 21 December 2024

Please join us in the gallery on the evening of Friday 6th December for the opening reception of Bronte Naylor's 'BODYACHE'

'BODYACHE' is an explorative and revealing collection of new works by Bronte Naylor. The artist presents a more immediate, quiet, and straightforward series of paintings that push through the ends, edges, and folds of grief, love, and mourning. Her commitment to ambiguity and emotional depth takes center-stage as the artist’s solemn perspectives resonate in the unanswered spaces and creases of bodily flesh and metal and landscape showcased in this exhibition.Brontë Naylor is an early-career multidisciplinary artist working across so-called Australia, engaging in expanded painting modalities that include spatial installation, ceramics, photography, performance, and digital media. Naylor’s work explores themes of grief, the reverse ruins of modernity, and mourning in relation to entropic built environments. Central to her practice is the concept of 'displacement'—examining how materials, resources, belonging, ownership, ideas, and histories intersect and blur within both a piece and a place. Naylor aims to collapse time within her work, holding the past, present, and future in adjacent, layered ways.

This marks the final exhibition for Season III at Wester Gallery.

Supported by Sea Salt & Sage Catering, Young Henrys, Usher Tinkler, NON, Heaps Normal

BODYACHE will be on view in the gallery 6 - 21 December.