Simeon AYRES
Storm Country, the Source of the Sevens Creek 2024
ink and watercolour on paper
When: Friday 14 March, 6PM
Where: Simpson Gallery
Price: This is a FREE event
Bookings: To secure your place, book online below, email the gallery on gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
Join Benalla Art Gallery, and artist Simeon Ayres for the launch of A Cartography of the Heart country… a courtship of belonging.
Simeon Ayres’ practice is defined by landscapes that are aerial, map-like in perspective, while also encompassing more traditional and pictorial depictions. His work is an attempt to understand the animate world – a world that he sees as both alive and intelligent. He looks for the landscape’s hidden voice, its language, its liminality and its magic.
Of the works Simeon says: “I walk, I listen, and observe. I feel into the country, its colours, sounds and shapes, its hidden pathways, and secret places. I like to strip back the country of its man-made additions, and speculate as to how it would be before we arrived. I like the idea that in my mapmaking, I am giving the land back to itself, suggesting it could dream once again.”