I’m Joanna Cole, a landscape painter born in 1972 on Kaurna and Peramangk Country in South Australia. I now live and work primarily from my home studio in Gadigal Country, Sydney (Bondi Beach), while also painting from the Hawkesbury River at LiKle Wobby, where I run Papillon Ar Mst Retreat and Residencies. Since 2017 I have dedicated myself to full-time landscape painting, using place, memory and environmental concerns to inform my work. My practice extends through artist residencies and exhibitions that address climate change, bushfire, flood, drought and land ownership, with a new focus emerging from LiKle Wobby and the Hawkesbury estuary.
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A solo art exhibition of landscape paintings from a residency in Andalucia, Spain. The eucalupts, are expats over there, introduced as quick growing, straight limbed shade providors for the soldiers in the Spanish Civil war. The Spanish entrepreneurs realised they make great timber and started harvesting for matches, paper and building materials. While the resilience, drought tolerant nature of the species had many benefits, there have been some causes for local protest against the Australian Natives. Most vehemently bushfires have been raging out of control on the Iberian Peninsular and the oil in the leaves of the gum trees have been blamed. Joanna Cole locates the eucalypt in its adopted homeland and making juxtapositions between the familiar, iconic Tasmanian Blue gum, in an unfamiliar country, and the Spanish Oyster thistle, familiar to Joanna as an introduced species to Australia, but unfamiliar as a staple Spanish ingredient. The flipping of context and perception makes for interesting conversation. The show was opened by Miguel Olmo, at Brenda Colahan Fine Arts. https://www.twine.net/signin
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