I’m delighted to share that I have a solo exhibition, The Cradle, coming up at Art Gallery on Ovens in Wangaratta, 17-28th March 2022. The opening night will be held on Friday 18th March from 6-8pm.
‘The Cradle’ is a series of expressive, partly abstracted oil paintings based on work by the 19th century French impressionist Berthe Morisot. Young, who was interested in the artist’s work as a student, has returned to Morisot as a way to explore the figure and how it can merge with the interior and landscape. Young has employed Morisot’s framing devices, the threshold spaces of windows and doorways, to portray the sometimes ambivalent scenes of motherhood and childhood. As a mother of young children herself, Young has drawn from her own life to build on and recontextualise Morisot’s paintings.’
