exhibitions

sculpture

13 – 16 September 2018

about the exhibition

Through her unique visual language of glyphs, GW Bot maps the landscape – not literally, but intuitively – with her markings always born from personal experience. For over a decade Bot has been working with bronze and rusted steel, creating impressively scaled glyph relief sculptures. “In the Australian context these glyphs are stark, stringent and struggling but nevertheless alive and seem to dance. They are a metaphor for ourselves.” This extensive repertoire of glyph motifs occurs across all mediums of her work. On one level, they are evocative of branches and twigs and have also been likened to the moth tracks on scribbly gums, but they also refer to more holistic ways of thinking about the environment including morphic, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic systems. Parallels may also be drawn with cosmological markings, mapping out the progression of time, seasons or natural events. GW Bot draws her exhibiting name from an early French citation to a wombat or ‘le grand Wam Bot’. This remains her totemic identity that confirms a oneness with the environment. In all variations of her work, GW Bot marries a mastery of technique with unlimited creativity and intuition.

GW Bot studied in London, Paris and Australia, graduating from the Australian National University in 1982. She has been a full-time artist since 1985 and has held over fifty solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Manila. Her work is represented in over one hundred public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, The Albertina (Vienna), British Museum (London), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Bibliothèque nationale (Paris) and Fogg Museum of Fine Arts (Harvard University, USA), as well as numerous Australian regional galleries, corporate collections and domestic and international tertiary, college and academy art collections.

exhibition images

  • 1. $6,200 Glyphs – Conversation - bronze, edition 1 of 7, 78 x 78 x 3.5cm

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  • 2. $5,500 Glyphs – Hillside – bronze, edition 1 of 7, 54 x 74 x 3cm

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  • 3. $5,800 Glyphs – Portrait - bronze, edition 1 of 7, 80 x 41 x 3cm

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  • 4. $3,800 Earth Glyphs – steel, unique, 114 x 48 x 0.2cm

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