Covid Carnivale | Judith Wright
10 February - 28 February 2021
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Judith Wright’s recent exhibition ‘Covid Carnivale’ showing from 10 February – 28 February. Wright’s latest series of works contain a sense of the carnivalesque and chaotic whilst continuing her preoccupation with theatricality, transience, physicality and the macabre. As stated by Michele Helmrich, ‘Covid Carnivale marks these moments of remembrance at a time when each of us must contemplate our mortality’. The exhibition will present installation-style works on wood as well as a series of large-scale paintings on Japanese paper, each work vibrating with tonal tension due to their vibrant stained surfaces.
We welcome you to enter the Covid Carnivale during our gallery hours Wednesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm & 11- 4pm Sunday.
'The works of Judith Wright shape-shift the viewer into a different mindset. A rational view gives way to a landscape of shadows and fledgling dreams, populated by fragments of creatures, human and otherwise...Above and about us, a cast of animals from farm and zoo, nature, home and spirit oscillate in a mobile of many parts, their flipsides revealing human faces. Painted on oddly shaped scraps of wood, faces and body parts are sometimes suspended one under the other in twos or threes, further animating this strangely happy flock. Have they found release from story books and toys?...'
— Michele Helmrich