IVY HILL GALLERY Wapengo, NSW 6th December 2018 ~ 13th January 2019

Paintings, Drawings & Assemblage by

Yemaya Grace Maitri

The artist would like to acknowledge the Land on which she was born, raised, has travelled & currently lives, is Sacred Aboriginal Land. She wishes to acknowledge the Traditional Elders of the Past, the Present & the Young People of today who are the Elders of tomorrow. She wishes to offer deep respect & gratitude to the Elders past, present & future, for the opportunity to live & create in Yuin Country.

Of This Place …experiments & findings in landscape~seascape~skyscape…

Ever inspired by Nature, ‘Of This Place’ is a body of work that explores my relationship with the surrounding environment through a series of paintings, drawings & assemblage.

The paintings are abstract representations of landscape, seascape & skyscape, which evolved out of movement meditations with paint on paper. Sourcing recycled domestic polymer paint & purposely limiting the palette, the paint is poured, the paper moved over some time & eventually let lie to allow the paint to present its own organic composition. The paper is then hand-cut into organic shapes resembling rock formations before being mounted onto recycled hand-cut board, lending a sculptural quality.

The drawings, which combine graphite, gouache, charcoal & thread, are an exploration of seemingly ordinary natural objects that are re-contextualised in a way that pays tribute to their unusual simplicity & extra-ordinariness.

The assemblages are comprised of salvaged bird & fish bone, stone & thread that have been collected over years of beach wanderings. These objects are glued to recycled hardwood sourced from building sites. With these materials I explore pattern, repetition & negative space with a sense of honour & respect for the fragility of Life.

Whichever medium I choose to work in, my intention is to invite the viewer into a realm of reverence for the extraordinary within the ordinary. My hope is that this may initiate an enquiry into their own response to & relationship with the Natural world & their integral place within it.

Yemaya Grace Maitri Wapengo, NSW Summer 2018

…the Paintings...

Luminous Ambience

Tidal Musings in the Blue Pool (a passage in time)

Luminescence (Water, being the last

to lose the Light)

Mixed media on paper, on timber 86 x 45 (irregular) x 5 cm $550

Mixed media on paper, on timber 80 x 41 (irregular) x 6 cm $550

Mixed media on paper, on timber 82 x 39 (irregular) x 5 cm $550

Tidal Musings in Green

(passages in time)

Viscerality

Microscosmos (in blue)

Mixed media on paper, on timber 77 x 36 (irregular) x 6 cm $550

Mixed media on paper, on timber 83 x 53 (irregular) x 5 cm $650

Mixed media on paper, on timber 85 x 44 (irregular) x 5 cm $550

Perpetual Ambience

(the Quiet Place in Emptiness) Oceanic Symphony

(where wave & rock collide) Ethereal Ambience

(in quiet places, I go there)

Mixed media on paper, on timber 58 x 30 (irregular) x 4 cm $450

Mixed media on paper, on timber 122 x 53 (irregular) x 6 cm $650

Mixed media on paper, on timber 66 x 30 (irregular) x 4 cm $450

Ungoverned Whitewash Macrocosm

(in green) Sediment (in blue)

Mixed media on paper, on timber 64 x 30 (irregular) x 4 cm $450

Mixed media on paper, on timber 87 x 41 (irregular) x 5 cm $550

Mixed media on paper, on timber 63 x 24 (irregular) x 4 cm $350

…the Drawings…

Polysemic State (tidal musings)

Homage to Charcoal Temples (forest eulogy)

Graphite, gouache, thread on Fabriano paper Float mounted in Tasmanian Oak box frame

83.5 x 83.5 x 3.5 cm (framed) $1,800 (framed)

Graphite & thread on Fabriano paper Float mounted in Tasmanian Oak box frame

83.5 x 83.5 x 3.5 cm (framed) $1,800 (framed)

Estuarial Glyphs (tidal remnants)

Rock Solitaire (tidal remnant)

Graphite, gouache, thread on Fabriano paper Float mounted in Tasmanian Oak box frame

83.5 x 83.5 x 3.5 cm (framed) $1,800 (framed)

Graphite & thread on Fabriano paper Float mounted in Tasmanian Oak box frame

83.5 x 83.5 x 3.5 cm (framed) $1,800 (framed)

…the Assemblages…

Homage to Winged Ones

(ovoid intervals) Homage to Winged Ones

(flocking) Homage to Winged Ones (on the Wing of the Ovoid)

Homage to Winged Ones (the weightless mystery)

Bone on recycled timber 29.5 x 15 x 2.5 cm $220

Bone & thread on recycled timber 24 x 19 x 4.5 cm $220

Bone on recycled timber 26 x 7 x 5 cm $150

Bone & thread on recycled timber 40 x 9 x 2 cm $160

Rhythmic Dissonance Homage to Winged Ones

(flight pattern ~ ii) Homage to Winged Ones (flight pattern ~ iii)

Blood & Bone (in Remembrance)

Bone & feather on recycled timber 29.5 x 18.5 x 4.5 cm $220

Bone on recycled timber 17 x 11 x 4 cm $120

Bone on recycled timber 22 x 13 x 2.5 cm $120

Bone & thread on recycled timber 19.5 x 24 x 4 cm $220

Totems for Small & Delicate Things

(shelter) Totems for Small & Delicate Things

(protection) Totems for Small & Delicate Things

(sequence) Totems for Small & Delicate Things

(seemingly insignificant)

Bone & thread on recycled timber 25 x 9 x 2 cm $150

Bone on recycled timber 25 x 9 x 2 cm $150

Bone on recycled timber 25 x 9 x 2 cm $120

Bone on recycled timber 26 x 4 x 3 cm $120

Paintings, Drawings & Assemblage by

Yemaya Grace Maitri

IVY HILL GALLERY Wapengo, NSW 6th December 2018 ~ 13th January 2019