Genevieve Memory

Abstracts

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Paperskin series, 2020-2021, oil and oil stick on cradled panel, 50.7 x 40.4 x 1.9cm, hand-stained timber frames, six panels  
 
The series considers skin as a metaphor for human vulnerability, offering a way to explore ideas around emotional pain and resilience.

Fragile/bare (diptych), 2020

Little scars/palimpsest (diptych), 2020

And bones/worn (diptych), 2020-2021

Envelope Poems, 2017, oil and oil stick on board, 61.2 x 51.2 x 1.2cm, five panels

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This series was inspired by snippets of Emily Dickenson's Envelope Poems that express an abstract emotion, mood or idea: "To light and then return/As there are apartments in our own minds/I have no life but this to lead/How much - how little - is within our power/But are not all facts dreams"

Install view at The Post Lounge, Woolloongabba

Shinkansen I and II, 2017, oil on canvas, each 40.7 x 50.9 x 3.7cm

Abstract paintings, prints and photographs 2015-16: