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PROVIDE SPACE: EXHIBITION
Opening night: Opening Thursday 11th December 6-9pm
Exhibition continues: December 12th-14th, 12-4pm
'un/tether' by Sophia McKenna
The persistence of memory is a regular reminder of versions of ourselves we once were, and that moment to moment, we change and grow. Un/tether is an exhibit of solo work by Sophia Kenna. Paintings that blend the abstract and figurative to consider a feeling of being tied to place, person, object, and whether these ties are ever fully loosened.
Sophia Kenna is an artist based in Walyalup (Fremantle). After completing her diploma in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2021, Sophia made the move back home. Sophia's work explores concepts of memory and nostalgia, and how essences of the past remembered can be explored through colour stories. Her pieces are made using a variety of mediums, allowing exploration of textural irregularities, with a combination of abstraction and figuration.
Working with a mix of acrylic, oils, oil pastels, charcoal, canvas and fabric, Sophia seeks to investigate the notion of how we curate our ow perception. Working from memory invokes a self-led sense of personal, revealing story, marked by the debateable nature of a narrator. Sophia’s work sways back and forth between finding uncanny sentiment in the fickle nature of memory, and an upmost belief of comfort in nostalgia, ultimately seeking to portray this essence of feeling in any piece.
