New exhibition signals gallery re-opening

Geology and industry are the subjects of the upcoming Trudy Tandberg exhibition which will mark the re-opening of Penola’s Gallery 54 after it was closed during July for some renovations.

The exhibition is part of South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival that runs for the month of August.

Titled Cleaving the Woakwine, the exhibition is a body of work made in consideration of how man changed the landscape.

“The works are intended to highlight the intent behind cutting through geology for a desired resource.” Trudy said.

“The work is about how I considered the visual impact of the mighty will of one person to change landscape so considerably and how our quality of life depends on these grand acts.

“Human bodies and cleverly made tools are capable of creating great change. How does that fact rest in our collective psyche?

“As an artist how do you illustrate these grand acts in a precise minimalist way on paper that an Australian would recognise and identify with?”

Included in the exhibition are three objects involved in the making of the work – a meat cleaver and a limestone saw from a farm at Woakwine and lino flooring from the Suttontown Chapel Studio.

They were used to create printed textures in the work along with the etching plates, acrylic paint, pastel, stamps and gold leaf.

The exhibition will be officially opened on Sunday, August 4, at Gallery 54 at 54 Church Street, Penola, at 2pm, and will run for the entire month.