The great sea is never far away...

OPENING at 6pm, Friday the 28th of April.

Exhibition runs until the 28th of May.

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A solo exhibition by Gaye Coyne, charting her on-going affinity with the sea and the natural world and her process of incorporating close observation, emotional reaction and memory.

“Each of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom and our blood streams are tributaries of the great sea, of its total memory”

- JG Ballard, The Drowned World

“Gaye Coyne is emblematic of the sea-drawn artist. She seeks for surface effects, but she also probes the depths, and the rich mysteries at the sea’s edge. Her praxis fits her purpose. Proceeding from a central idea, she gives the accepted senses and startling visceral reactions free expressive play. There may be a horizon line, there may be an opaque cloud evoking a looming menace, there may be a chaos of unsettled water, there may be sinuous lines of weed and worm and mangrove knee (say), there may be a tumble of rock at the base of a seacliff. Let’s stay with these rocks. They may be sea-washed; they may not. They may be integral to a seascape, or they may, rather, be redolent of sun-battered desert. What is encoded within their ancient chemistry? What do they know; what might they tell us?” - Pete Hay

Pete Hay is a Tasmanian writer. His most recent books are Physick: Catharsis; and The Natural Things and Forgotten Corners: Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul

Image: Gaye Coyne, Sea landscape, 2022, acrylic and Indian ink on canvas, 40 x 40 cm