Opening Saturday 10th October at 6.30pm

“Transit”

featuring

SUE CODEE, YOKO WEBSTER & SUE NASH

A compelling exhibition featuring the works of Sue Codee, Yoko Webster and Sue Nash is on show at Elements Art Gallery from October 10th.
Based on the theme ‘Transit’ each artist responds with a personal recollection of their own story, or the journey of another across the globe.

Sue Codee from Albany has used the theme to explore a developing fascination with the use of paper. This interest is both an extension of and response to its use in various elements of eastern art studied during travels to Asia. Using a fusion of calligraphy and paper cutting as well as multimedia in the form of prints on paper with collage, Codee’s flocks of paper birds aggregate on the gallery walls en route to far off lands articulating the message that all who inhabit this earth do so in a constant state of transition and flux.

Yoko Webster draws on personal memories of her journey from Japan to Australia and the challenges which have broadened her beliefs since her arrival. Through a series of gracefully articulated acrylics, her billowing, swirling canvases paraphrase the theme of ‘transit’ in terms of change; change in the universe, time, energy and space. Her works marvel at the motion of atoms, water, clouds and wind as they travel an infinite path, ceaselessly shifting and rearranging from moment to moment in an endless orbit of the earths surface.

Sue Nash seeks to highlight the predicament of the ‘refugee’ with her family narrative of escape and relocation. Utilising installation, she reflects on the bravery of her mother and grandmother as they risked death to escape the perils of their home land. The viewer is led on an emotional journey as the transit of the two migrants is documented in a sensitive account of desperation and enduring struggle. Themes of alienation and isolation hover beneath the surface in a shadowy reminder of the cultural opinion of the era, an era in which strangers were reminded that they were ‘different’ and didn’t ‘fit in’.

‘Transit’ runs until October 25th

For further information please contact gallery manager Sue Nash
on 9386 2000 or sue@elementsartgallery.com.au
M: 0419 934 350

‘Flock’ by Sue Codee

‘Symphony Of The Sun’ by Yoko Webster

‘Midnight Escape Across The  Border” by Sue Nash