Ember Fairbairn Thin Skins
17 November – 5 December 2020
Ember Fairbairn
Coming in from the east, 2020, oil on wood panel, 160 x 120 cm, $5,000 incl. GST
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Ember Fairbairn
Stone water dreamer, 2020, oil on board, 160 x 120 cm, $5,000 incl. GST
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Ember Fairbairn
Felt you there, 2020, oil on wood panel, 100 x 70 cm, $2,500 incl. GST
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Ember Fairbairn
Coming in from the east, 2020, oil on wood panel, 160 x 120 cm, $5,000 incl. GST
AVAILABLE
Ember Fairbairn
Stone water dreamer, 2020, oil on board, 160 x 120 cm, $5,000 incl. GST
AVAILABLE
Ember Fairbairn
Felt you there, 2020, oil on wood panel, 100 x 70 cm, $2,500 incl. GST
AVAILABLE
Thin Skins by Ember Fairbairn explores the yearning of belonging in nature and how relationships with place play out in the time of covid. As the artist describes, the veils or skins are thin, but they have not yet shed. The paintings reflect this transient time, and thinking is divulged in the process, how difficult times become sacred.
The new collection is a metamorphosis, of shedding skin. Fairbairn is concerned with what’s underneath the skin or veil, her paintings becoming a carrier of information to make some form of sense for herself. The works reveal themselves in active gestures or layers of paint. They reveal a belonging, connecting Fairbairn’s time in the landscape, and evolving within nature.
Thin Skins refers to how we are worn thin by it all, yet how, underneath the layers, there is hope. That despite the challenging times we face, there is a way through, beyond the veil.
Emma-Kate Wilson