BACK
GALLERY - Gallery
Visual artist Su Berghuis-Garde is completing the final pieces for an exhibition of her work at Kidogo Art Institute, Bathers Beach, Fremantle from 8th – 24th October.
The Bridgetown–based artist has been part of the south-west art community for the past twenty years, and has exhibited in Dunsborough, Margaret River, Yallingup, Bunbury, Bridgetown, Pemberton and Albany. She regularly features in the South West Times Survey at the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.
As Gallery Co-ordinator at Busselton’s Courthouse Gallery (now ArtGeo) in the early 1990s, she recognized the need for an artist-run collective in the region. As a result, she co-founded Cyrillean Gallery, situated in an old house on Dunn Bay Road, Dunsborough. The gallery ‘lived’ for 7 years, proving a great launching pad for many of the region’s emerging artists. The old house has since been demolished, the only memory of it being Cyrillean Lane, the road which leads shoppers into the Coles carpark!
Berghuis-Garde has since lived in Bunbury, Gelorup and Bridgetown, completing an arts degree and implementing creative program for young people with disabilities.
“For the past twenty years much of my artwork has been a simple response to being in the Australian landscape,” Berghuis-Garde has said. “Alongside the images of rocks and trees, I have explored works which mark a transition - physical, emotional or spiritual. The language of symbols and colour - the communication beyond words - has driven much of my own work as well as workshops I have run for others, from children and women to young people with disabilities.”
Berghuis-Garde has titled the exhibition ‘meander’ in response to the way she has lived her life. “I have lived from a backpack, suitcase, caravan, sleeping on fold-up beds, couch cushions on the floor, staying up all night with newborn grandchildren. I have travelled by bus, train, bike, plane, car and on foot- walking as much as possible to ground myself. I haven’t stayed in one place longer than a few days for the past 12 months. I intend to show work on the gallery walls which has been produced while meandering- physically, spiritually, emotionally.”
She explains the way the charcoal, brush, or twig dipped in indian ink she uses in her work have all performed their own ‘meander’, resulting in marks on a surface. “I meander through the bush, along the beach, through the streets of small towns and large cities,” she says, “These places leave their mark on me. Art is a refuge…a place to sort through memory and mystery.”
Berghuis-Garde’s most recent work is a celebration of simple domestic acts performed in daily life. She believes that we are living in such turbulence and challenging times that we take comfort in the security and repetition of domestic tasks which help us have gratitude for that which nurtures.
Meander@kidogo opens at Kidogo Gallery, Bathers Beach, Mews Road, Fremantle on Saturday 9th October from 2-5pm and runs until Sunday 24th October.
All media enquiries to be directed to Jodi Fotios at Kidogo Arthouse
info@kidogo.com.au
(08) 9335 9636
The Bridgetown–based artist has been part of the south-west art community for the past twenty years, and has exhibited in Dunsborough, Margaret River, Yallingup, Bunbury, Bridgetown, Pemberton and Albany. She regularly features in the South West Times Survey at the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.
As Gallery Co-ordinator at Busselton’s Courthouse Gallery (now ArtGeo) in the early 1990s, she recognized the need for an artist-run collective in the region. As a result, she co-founded Cyrillean Gallery, situated in an old house on Dunn Bay Road, Dunsborough. The gallery ‘lived’ for 7 years, proving a great launching pad for many of the region’s emerging artists. The old house has since been demolished, the only memory of it being Cyrillean Lane, the road which leads shoppers into the Coles carpark!
Berghuis-Garde has since lived in Bunbury, Gelorup and Bridgetown, completing an arts degree and implementing creative program for young people with disabilities.
“For the past twenty years much of my artwork has been a simple response to being in the Australian landscape,” Berghuis-Garde has said. “Alongside the images of rocks and trees, I have explored works which mark a transition - physical, emotional or spiritual. The language of symbols and colour - the communication beyond words - has driven much of my own work as well as workshops I have run for others, from children and women to young people with disabilities.”
Berghuis-Garde has titled the exhibition ‘meander’ in response to the way she has lived her life. “I have lived from a backpack, suitcase, caravan, sleeping on fold-up beds, couch cushions on the floor, staying up all night with newborn grandchildren. I have travelled by bus, train, bike, plane, car and on foot- walking as much as possible to ground myself. I haven’t stayed in one place longer than a few days for the past 12 months. I intend to show work on the gallery walls which has been produced while meandering- physically, spiritually, emotionally.”
She explains the way the charcoal, brush, or twig dipped in indian ink she uses in her work have all performed their own ‘meander’, resulting in marks on a surface. “I meander through the bush, along the beach, through the streets of small towns and large cities,” she says, “These places leave their mark on me. Art is a refuge…a place to sort through memory and mystery.”
Berghuis-Garde’s most recent work is a celebration of simple domestic acts performed in daily life. She believes that we are living in such turbulence and challenging times that we take comfort in the security and repetition of domestic tasks which help us have gratitude for that which nurtures.
Meander@kidogo opens at Kidogo Gallery, Bathers Beach, Mews Road, Fremantle on Saturday 9th October from 2-5pm and runs until Sunday 24th October.
All media enquiries to be directed to Jodi Fotios at Kidogo Arthouse
info@kidogo.com.au
(08) 9335 9636