Monday July 4 – Saturday September 17
Opening Thursday 7th of July 6.00 – 9.00PM
Linda Fish presents Looking Forward, an exhibition of small Figurative Bronze sculptures and Lino Prints.
My artwork aims to transform real-life events into positive artworks.
I am interested in the contradictions and paradoxes in life, the challenges of events and their transformation into sculptures and prints.
Building on a 2008 work titled ‘Eulogy’ – a sculpture made of lace cloth filled with the personal items that belonged to a friend who died tragically – the ‘bundle’ represented the positive aspects of my friend’s personality and interests.
The image of the bundle has now been transferred to my new works of small figurative bronze sculptures where it represents my own recent struggles with cancer. The ‘bundle’ depicts the many emotions of my journey.
I have also completed a series of linocut prints titled ‘Looking Forward’, each of which contains an image of an eye. The eye represents my new way of seeing life. Within the eye are images of the treasures in my life such as trees, animals, my son, and the mountains of Yackandandah.
This is not a sad or negative exhibition of artwork but one with a positive message that needs to be shared.
