30 July - 3 August 2008
about the exhibition
GW Bot has described her latest body of work as a “dialogue between silences and spaces and the landscape of glyphs”. Gestural marks reminiscent of ancient pictographs or hieroglyphics describe a winding trail from the known landscape toward a psychological hinterland that lies somewhere between the sensorial and the visual, the abstract and the real. Like a sequence of visual poems, this series of work maps a spiritual terrain as much as a physical landscape. In all variations of her work, through linocuts, drawings and bronzes, GW Bot marries a mastery of technique with unlimited creativity and intuitive sensitivity. A printmaker, painter and sculptor, she has held over thirty solo exhibitions both within Australia and overseas. She is represented in over a hundred public art collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Albertina (Vienna), British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fogg Museum of Fine Arts (Harvard), Kharkiv Art Gallery (Ukraine), Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) and Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing). Most recently GW Bot was selected for the Royal Academy 2007 Summer Exhibition in London
