Edge | Gabrielle Courtenay

A new exhibition by Gabrielle Courtenay uses the ephemeral beauty of the desert saltbush to confront environmental issues of our time.

‘In Edge Courtenay has transformed tiny skeletons of plants into bewitching forms of poetic beauty… Macabre as they are, these assemblages have poignancy to them, for like Courtenay’s paintings they are reminders of the fragility and ephemeral nature of life.” (Author and Curator Victoria Hammond)

Best known for her bold, minimal style, the new works in this exhibition reflect a dramatic shift in Gabrielle Courtenay‘s art practice. Edge is a series of 19 paintings and drawings of dark poetic forms. The works reach out to the viewer, confronting one with the environmental destruction done since colonisation and the need to take climate change seriously.

Gabrielle Courtenay