Events
Shonah Trescott "Drawn into the Light"
11 September 2012 - 8 December 2012
Ando Gallery is pleased to announce "Drawn into the Light", a second solo exhibition by Australian artist, Shonah Trescott.
Ms Trescott was born in Australia in 1982, and received a bachelor of fine arts with a major in painting from the National Art School in Sydney. She now lives and works in Berlin. At her 2010 exhibition’ "Mankind, Nature, Myth"- her first solo show in Japan - Ms Trescott attracted significant attention for her paintings which represent the primordial relationships between human beings and their natural surroundings.
In May of this year, Ms Trescott spent about one month as an artist-in-residence in Ny-Ålesund, located on an island in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Circle. The Arctic wilderness is rich in natural resources and Ny-Ålesund once prospered as a coal mining town. At present, the settlement is run as an international base for scientific research for ten countries; Norway, Germany, France, Japan and other nations have research bases in the village to engage in environmental science research, focusing on specific areas including ozone depletion and the earth's atmosphere.
Through living with the local people and scientists, Ms Trescott deepened her awareness of accelerating global warming in the Arctic. At the same time, she was fascinated by the breathtaking natural scenery, the history and the coal mining past of Ny-Ålesund. In the landscapes, hidden myths and stories represented through Trescott’s own observations, abstraction and figuration coexist together, sometimes maintaining their differences and other times merging with each other. Ms Trescott’s uses the medium of painting to portray the natural environment around her and the broadening of the visual sense between narrative and abstraction in an appealing way.
In this exhibition, paintings, photographs and silkscreen prints inspired by Ms Trescott’s experience living in the Arctic Circle will be exhibited.
| Shonah Trescott "Drawn into the Light" | |
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| Date |
11 September 2012 - 8 December 2012 Closed on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays |
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11:00 - 19:00 |
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| Venue |
ANDO GALLERY 3-3-6 Hirano Koto-ku Tokyo Phone: 03-5620-2165 Website: |
| Admission |
Free |
| Enquiries |
ANDO GALLERY Phone: 03-5620-2165 Fax: 03-5620-2166 Website: http://www.andogallery.co.jp Email: office@andogallery.co.jp |
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<Photo Credits> Left to right What Lies Beneath 1 Black Carbon 2 79 degrees North 1 Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and ANDO GALLERY |
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