{"id":1257,"date":"2019-11-09T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2025-03-14T11:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T00:42:32","slug":"cornucopia-main-gallery-and-till-death-do-us-part-by-ali-walker-and-christine-wynyard-in-the-solo-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/cornucopia-main-gallery-and-till-death-do-us-part-by-ali-walker-and-christine-wynyard-in-the-solo-space\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201dCornucopia\u201d Main Gallery and \u201cTill Death do us part\u201d by Ali Walker and Christine Wynyard in The Solo Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018Cornucopia\u2019.<\/strong> This classical and mythical idea of a \u2018cornucopia\u2019 is usually shown with the image of a goat\u2019s horn or a woven basket in the shape of a horn overflowing with the bounties and abundance of the land.  This has been expressed in the artist\u2019s works on display in the gallery, but also a gesture to the loss of abundance in the world today with Fiona Shadwell\u2019s hand-painted cloth titled \u2018Parched Landscape\u2019, and Christine Wynyard\u2019s interactive piece \u2018Abundance Lost\u2019. They are both a reminder of the peril there is when we don\u2019t take care of this planet. We live with the contradiction of the waste we create and the joy of a delicious piece of fruit, a flower in bloom, the delight in the re-shaping of recycled wood and this exhibition explores some of these paradoxes.         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gold
Gold cornucopia by Theodore Kennett-Raj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cornucopia
Cornucopia by Linnie Lambrechtsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Still
Still Life with Blue Cup & Saucer by Rodney Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Till death do us part\u2019 by Ali Walker & Christine Wynyard in The Solo Space<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review by Stephen Wright
Til Death Do Us Part<\/em> brings together two significant local artists, Christine Wynyard and Ali Walker whose small scale works have been popping up at Blue Knob exhibitions for several years. For the attentive, these works have often been small disruptions in the general local art discourse and bringing both artists together shows us what local artists are really capable of when they put their thinking caps on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wynyard and Walker have taken an unflinching view of death, impermanence, separation and loss that is panoramic, delicate and robust, and isn\u2019t afraid of whimsy. They show us the traces death leaves behind, and how they are registered by those still living. There\u2019s a clear sequence to the exhibition as well, beginning with Wynyard\u2019s lovely representation of the Heart Sutra and end-stopped with Walker\u2019s \u2018Cup of Life and Death\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In between, Wynyard\u2019s minimalist, precise Buddhist-inflected paintings embrace Walker\u2019s spectacular \u2018Grave Goods of a Warrior Queen\u2019. It\u2019s an exhibition to take some time over, to reflect on. Death is, after all, present in everything, in every moment and this exhibition – which it is not possible to praise too highly – shows us that in embracing it is what makes living possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Things
Things I’d like to take with me but can’t -The mystery III
by Christine Wynyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Canopic jars by Ali Walker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Fibonacci<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Both exhibitions will run concurrently until Sat Nov 9th <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists & Friends<\/strong> The next lunch will be held on Thurs 31st October at 12.30pm with a set menu for $20 incl Main & Dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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