HOLLY FEWSON
Holly Fewson ‘Diptych Dive’, 2019
PREVIOUS EXHIBITION:
‘GARDEN LANDING’
29TH OF AUGUST - 21ST OF SEPTEMBER 2019
Garden Landing is an exhibition that explores boundaries, self-awareness, and the space between your own experience and another person’s perception of it. Fewson's paintings probe at how we may be seen, observed and understood. Within the perimeters of a hortus conclusus, or enclosed garden, Fewson reflects on the female experience in a heavenly province, home to figures who lounge within the protection of the wall and inviting greenery. Despite the sublime façade of the landscape—not unlike The Garden of Eden—the walled garden speaks of danger; its enclosure implies privacy and impenetrability. Rather, the artist depicts a post-paradise landscape—one that aims to recreate the original idea of Eden—in an effort to protect the female figures from harm, to maintain paradise, and nurture an inner lifeforce that once was.
Australian artist Holly Fewson
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Holly Fewson is an emerging artist from Sydney, Australia. Fewson has long depicted the female experience through her painting practice, posing questions surrounding the innate contrasts of femininity, strength, sacredness and sexuality. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from National Art School (NAS). Her previous exhibitions include ‘Garden Landing’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2019), ‘Cars’, Ellery Gallery (2017), ‘Salon de Sydney’, Ambush Gallery (2016), ‘The RAW Project’, The Ladies Network (2016), and ‘Hollier than Thou’, Blank Space Gallery, (2015). The artist currently lives and works in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia.