Don Barrett and Helen Timbury
The Hawk & the Winter Bush
19 July – 9 August
Opening: Saturday 19th July 2 – 4 pm
Don Barrett
Barrett’s practice is a continuous journey. An evolving process shared by many artists. Central to his work is a focus on shape, form, and balance. While the environment, nature, and the human body subtly inform his approach, these elements are not the dominant forces. In recent works, he has turned his attention toward human expression, explored through a minimalistic and metaphorical rendering of the human form. This exhibition, The Hawk and The Winter Bush, came about through what he describes as a creative accident.
Helen Timbury
Timbury’s work is about spending time in the Gippsland Bush. The artist walks quietly in nature and takes the viewer along with her. Like a trail guide, she points out the rustling of a bird in leaf litter, the spectacle of grey-headed flying foxes as they prepare to roost at dusk, or the ghostly silhouette of a moth resting flat on the tent fly. She invites you to take solace in the canopy, leaf stem and branches of eucalypts. Her linocut and monoprints celebrate a special gippsland biodiversity — one that she feels is under threat from housing development, feral pests and weeds, bushfire, and a lack of stewardship.