Sidespace Gallery, Level 2, Salamanca Arts Centre 30th November 2023- 13th January 2024
Paintings in watercolour and gouache, graphite works and prints by Katherine Cooper, member of the Society of Animal Artists USA and the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia.
EXHIBITION DATES:
Thursday 30 November 2023 – Wednesday 6 January 2024
DAILY OPENING HOURS*:
Monday – Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm
Sundays 10:30pm – 3:00pm
*CLOSED Christmas Day : Saturday 25 December 2021*
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Works in watercolour, gouache and graphite featuring the everyday, a feather, a bird’s nest, to the rare and uncommon, the tiny Tasmanian Red Handfish.
We take much for granted and in doing so, we devalue it. This response is not necessarily intentional, but life is busy, and there is an assumption, an acceptance what we view about us will always be there.
We live in pivotal times. Do we need to reconnect; do we need to find ‘enchantment’ in the simple and uncomplicated to rediscover balance? I think so.
As Author Katherine May writes in her latest publication,
‘Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age’ – ‘Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. It becomes valuable when we value it’.