NOURISH | ANNE MCDONNELL
30TH November 2024 – 5th January 2025
“As we navigate the highs and lows through various relationships throughout our lives
from first encounters to lasting bonds, mother, friend… self… These pieces strive to
make these emotions and connections tangible through mark making in an effort to
understand and record them.”
Through printmaking, I am working on plates in an intuitive manner, painting bitumen
directly onto plates, each plate a compilation of marks striving to evoke these emotions. I
am curious about the way we encounter each other, how can care turn to control?, and
the fine lines between love and lust. The figures in my pieces help me to explore themes
of tension conflict, self doubt. The figures are almost symbol like in their simplicity ,
uncomplicated to reinforce their idea.
Many of the pieces are layered representing us where we are, where we came from, the
people we connect with. Intuitively the themes “Nourish”, and nurture introduce
themselves to me, balm to salve any hurt.
Anne McDonnell 2024