A remnant evokes something past or lost but also presents a new opportunity. Works in this exhibition have largely been created from the artists’ discarded or unresolved paintings. They have challenged each other to make use of their abandoned works - not only materially but as a creative resource.
There is a psychology in this act of revisiting and carrying forward that resonates with the artists’ approaches to painting the Australian landscape. Both are interested in how our experiences of the natural environment form us, become our points of navigation and the places we return to, at least in our psyche.
In creating these new bodies of work from old, the painting process has bridged past and present, providing a means of confronting loss, holding memory and seeking resolution. Through passages of reworked paint and scraped-back surfaces, among traces of surviving marks and veils of ghosted colour, the artists have each found their own language of remembrance and renewal.