 | Image: Artists Book - Iceberg, Liz Jeneid
Photo: courtesy of Mi... Image: Artists Book - Iceberg, Liz Jeneid
Photo: courtesy of Michael Young |  | Image: Icebergs Ice & Antarctic storm, Sue Barnett Image: Icebergs Ice & Antarctic storm, Sue Barnett |
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Artists: Susan Barnett & Liz Jeneid
20 July 2006 to 14 August, 2006
Opened Friday 21 July, 6.30pm
Both Susan Barnett and Liz Jeneid have worked as ‘artists on board’ on ships travelling to the Arctic and Antarctic. Their responses to the landscapes they encountered are shown in this extensive exhibition of photographs, etchings, ink drawings, paintings and artist books.
Susan Barnett is a graduate and post-graduate student of the University of Wollongong and has been exhibiting for the past 16 years within Australia.
“Antarctica is an extraordinary ‘natural art gallery’. The Antarctic landscape is truly beautiful and words fail me in trying to describe this emotional experience of seeing a vast wilderness. To be out on deck or gazing through the library window and suddenly passing before you are the most enormous icebergs that look like white-coated mountains just serenely passing by, is both astonishing and surreal.” – Susan Barnett
Liz Jeneid was previously a teacher of visual arts with the Faculty of Creative Arts UOW for many years and is now an honorary fellow. She teaches workshops in Australia and overseas and her work is included in many collections both here and abroad.
“Artists are fascinated by the vast extraordinary landscapes of the Artic and the Antarctic. The journey to the ice can be punctuated by storms which change a non threatening sea into one where enormous swells throw the ship around from side to side and up and down in a very unsettling way. Images of Titanic like shipwrecks whirl through one’s brain while avoiding flying objects in the cabin. The sea gets calmer as the first iceberg is seen and the decks and bridge are full of passengers photographing these majestic shapes which change in colour and configuration as we sail past them…” - Liz Jeneid
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