Catalogue:

Inventory of a Landscape available at King Street Gallery on William.

 

Artist statement by Genevieve Carroll

The Wattle Room came into its own by creating my art as a three-dimensional book with a diaristic approach in 2007 at the

Cite Internationale des arts, Paris residency. Inspired by my love of poetry and literature, each exhibition I create represents a chapter.

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Story telling through mixed media is juxtaposed with absurdity and humour; a way to disorientate the everyday and familiar.

My art brings together ideas that are pieced together from cross references of self portraits, personal experiences, fragments of novels, observation of nature and the world around me.

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Transforming playfully familiar objects between humour, tenderness, and instability. These colourful artworks can be understood

as a kind of visual inventory of landscape and experiences, an ongoing process of noticing, gathering and reordering the familiar.

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Working across painting, poetry, drawing and animation, I build imaginary worlds populated with symbolic meaning, collapsing houses, support structures, snow domes, feral cats, rats and precariously balancing forms. Objects teeter, lean into the landscape or appear moments before change, embodying feeling so vulnerability, persistence and adaptation.

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The hill is a constant compositional anchor and the jug functions as a quiet self portrait rambling over the landscape of Hill End. I am interested in the tension between stability and movement creating compositions that feel kinetic or momentarily supported.

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These artworks invite multiple readings while remaining grounded in familiar forms, precisely thorough instability,

where nothing holds long enough to be certain and humour offsets uncertainty.