Mandy Gunn’s new exhibition “Double Exposure” at Leeson Street Gallery opens on March 31 and includes a selection of artwork using recycled, collected and found materials.
South Gippsland artist Mandy Gunn’s new exhibition Double Exposure opens at Leeson Street Gallery, on Sunday March 31.
The exhibition will run until April 14.
Mandy works across a wide selection of media: painting; monoprinting; weaving – which she learned at a Melbourne University Summer School in 1972; and construction processes using recycled, collected and found materials.
The latter being what she has become best known for and will be the work exhibited in the Double Exposure exhibition at Leeson Street Gallery. Materials in these artworks include cardboard, recycled printed paper from phone books and the old Melbourne train and tram tickets, burnt out rubber inner tubes, products from nature and places she has visited like desert sand and salt.
In all these works the origin and history of the materials feed into the meaning of the works – a kind of interweaving of art and life.
Mandy has lived in South Gippsland for the past eighteen years where she has a large airy studio looking out over farmland and dunes, all of which feeds into her creative process.
Mandy's educational background includes a Post Grad Fine Art degree at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) followed by a Master of Fine Art also at the VCA. These qualifications, together with the Diploma of Education she completed earlier, have enabled her to exhibit widely across Australia, and also to teach at RMIT, the CAE and many other workshop venues such as GrampianArts and various regional galleries.
Peter Walker
Complementing Mandy's work is a series of works by Peter Walker.
Peter presents large figurative paintings on canvas. And he believes they are his "best paintings to date".
The works include portraits, people and influences from his last trip to New York City (NYC). Textural/fabric artist Faith Ringgold is an artist he met at an exhibition of her work at The American Contemporary Art Gallery (ACA) in Chelsea NYC. From that meeting he painted Faith in a very gestural, almost cartoon type style adding textural/fabric elements to the canvas as she did in her work.
There are two further figure paintings taken via the internet of Hilton Als and Fernanda Lavera into the mix.
Double Exposure opens at Leeson Street Gallery, 38 Leeson Street Cowes on Sunday March 31, from 2pm – 4pm. Curated by Catherine Robinson.
Closes Sunday April 14, 3pm. All are welcome.
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