JULIE SUNDBERG & ZORICA PURLIJA 'SOLACE' - ZOOM OPENING

ZOOM OPENING

Join us on Thursday the 28th of October for our Zoom Opening of 'Solace'. This is a wonderful opportunity to talk with the artists Julie Sundberg and Zorica Purlija, to ask questions and to share a drink (virtually). We would love to see you on Zoom and of course look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery in person.

See you there !

Merilyn, Liza, Reiana & Claire.

DETAILS

Thursday 28th October 6:30-7pm

Zoom Meeting ID: 871 154 1593

ABOUT

For many years Julie Sundberg and Zorica Purlija have worked on long term portrait series of their daughters. Without having collaborated or exhibited together, their previous work reveals an uncanny synchronicity. In Solace they have both turned from the portrait to landscape, creating layered reactions to place as if in a secret conversation. Without knowledge of the other’s work they have used different techniques to show the “virtual space that opens up behind the surface”. Both artists have found solace in this process.

Julie Sundberg's The River series was created entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic on her walks by the Cooks River. Experimenting with in-camera multiple exposure she constructed imaginary landscapes with different focus and viewpoints within the frame: metaphors for her failing vision and the fragmented nature of her life which simultaneously became physically smaller and intellectually larger. Surrender to the chance and randomness of her technique was a joyful counterpoint to the grim daily news and social controls imposed by lockdown.

Zorica Purlija's Fade into You reclaims the wholeness we are born with in nature, a connection that has faded with the progress of modernisation. The landscape here is of a place imbued with body, memory and life itself. Photographed at Crescent Head, a regular yearly holiday destination for her family, the works are constructed by digitally layering landscape images with portraits of her daughter Yumi. The series shows a symbiotic relationship with nature and reflects this aspect of being both one and at one with nature - a feeling of connection and belonging in returning to a place of joy.

Stanley Street Gallery would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land under which the gallery operates. We pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.