2024 | The Mandorla Art Award
Holmes à Court Gallery | West Perth
Exhibition: 25 May – 15 June 2024
Theme - Refocus
Artist Statement
Love Maps The Home
This work uses worn, colourful scraps of lino flooring to speak to Motherly love. It references the love and care given by mothers daily, doing what they do with unconditional love. The work shows the countless marks of history, paint drips of rooms renewed, scuff marks and places worn down by feet. It tells of heartfelt memories; those of patience, tolerance, the security of warm beds, wholesome food, and of the rooms made 'special' for celebration and family time. The lines of stitching express support, patching of the torn and worn, and of making do: The provision of what is necessary and all given with love. They are the threads of conversation over a life time of commitment, inspiration, guidance and enduring love.
Refocus becomes the great 'What if?' Let us imagine a world where love is the animator of everything!
'Let all that you do be done in love.'
1 Corinthians 16:14 (NRSV)
