Alison Mitchell : Still – Water

SALA exhibition August 1 - 31, 2021

Meet and greet the artist August 1 at 2pm

Exhibition launch August 14 at 3pm

with guest opening speaker Emma Fey, Chief Executive Officer - Guildhouse

This, my second exhibition at the Hahndorf Academy, follows on from a long and dusty summer and the trepidations of Covid.  It was in fact a surprise to find the garden producing such lush abundance.  Which is, like everything living, mostly water.  So my attention turned to this and the vessels that contain, restrain, divide and dispense. This, and the anomaly of the dry landscape around me, the creeks that have silted and the rivers run dry.

BIO

Alison Mitchell is a visual artist based near Riverton in the Mid North of South Australia.  She paints in watercolour and oils, responding to the seasonal changes of her garden, working directly from life and informed by her studies in anthropology and Asian art history.

Her work focuses on a still life tradition of domestic objects intentionally arranged and composed in the studio.  It is a timeless tradition, deeply embedded in the practice of carefully observed painting from life – of plants nurtured and objects treasured. As a practice it demands attentiveness to the agency of art making, to the fall of light, the shift of shadow, of elation, uncertainty, and, particularly, to the weft and warp of what is known and what is seen.