AN exhibition of multi-media artforms contrasting one local artist’s reflections of his introverted versus extroverted nature has transformed Gloucester Gallery into a space of decorative, organic light and shape.
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The artistic journey undertaken by DogsWood aka Gordon Elliott took place over ten months last year, when he undertook an artist’s residency at a winery in the Hunter Valley.
‘I’ve undertaken to create (a minimum) of one sculptural building block per week, provided my hands, wrists and sanity hold out’ he wrote in a Facebook post at the time.
“Within these building blocks, works that reflect my thoughts, feelings and experiences will reside.”
On-site the works were setup to create a sculptural virtual room amongst the trees. In the gallery, they fill the space to reflect a journey that is full of metaphors.
“I was pretty much using my work as therapy,” Gordon said.
The subsequent exhibition titled Tribe of One is an affirmation of what he says is an affirmation of his own sense of self-worth, tenacity and creativity, encapsulated in a metaphor of ‘tending a garden – yourself’.
“I love it all, I really do.”
He said the hardest thing was trying to condense the story he wanted to tell, because he had “so many ways of telling it.”
“This is my song, but expressed in a sculptural way.”
Tribe of One is on exhibition at Gloucester Gallery until April 24.