Moores Building Art Space | Here, Somewhere

Here, Somewhere is an exhibition that seeks to provide you a look into three Artist’s somewheres, and invites you to consider yours.

Annie Irvine, George Howlett and Alexander Beetle’s core motivation as Artists, is to be greatly affected by their surroundings. Their work, although different in visual nature, is linked deeply to their experience of their outside world. It is only half of the process to “see” your surroundings, the second half is to render an inner language into a perceptible form.

In Here, Somewhere the Artists speak from their unique place of inspiration, resulting in three “somewheres” conversing in the same room at once. Annie Irvine, absorbed by the vastness and the ancient forms of the East Kimberley, her home for 15 years, explores it with vivid colour and arresting depths. George Howlett’s link to the urban neon monuments of our cities, affords us light and alluring colour in otherwise desolate places. Whilst Alexander Beetle, a seed collector by trade, utilises alarming colour contrasts on raw hessian to covey his existence, consumed by a forest of Jarrah trees. Those of which in this environmental crisis are under such threat.