G A L L E R Y

Dionysus Frenzy 1

Charcoal on paper

130 x 114cm.

Voilà – French Collection

Jody Graham 2022.

Jody Graham’s forthcoming exhibition: Paris to Portland Lost Bear Gallery - 4th November to 10th December 2023. https://lostbeargallery.com.au

Jody Graham is also represented by Nanda/Hobbs Gallery https://nandahobbs.com/ https://jodygraham.com.au/ All

Jody Graham © 2023.

Preparations

Just words thrown together, seemingly related. Mix and match, from our repertoire of serpent headed creatures. In the coolness of the early morning, we prepare ourselves for another long journey, even if it doesn’t happen.

To go through the preliminary (stages), gestures. Breathe in the memory of not forgetting.

To add another layer, a hundred fathoms deep, to the furthest regions of our ancestral lineage. Another stop sign along the way.

Don’t you feel like telling me where you have been and what prompted you?

All who want to hear, a repeat of the teachings that have travelled all this way, bordering along the edge of time.

Thus, we have also heard rumours, celebrating its own type of existence, to be a reflection, incised in our flesh.

- Eric Werkhoven © 2023.

Under The Name Of Conquer And Rule

The dreaming rehabilitated, put back in its rightful place.

It’s hard to make it rhyme, to make it stick.

Is there such a clause that states it is compulsory, to be a vital part.

No, it is up to the individual person to seek all there is to find and remember the passages.

One section, one small corner, that says I am a structural heavy stone going twenty meters deep.

Hang on me your essential parts, I won’t crumble.

They, as in we have shaken the mountain deep in its core and only saw, a puff of dust rises from the top.

Did you need to see the gigantic mushroom shape rise up like an awesome reality, a symbol of our nations power?

The constructs of a mighty force of twenty thousand men marching in unison.

And it is written that we speak of combining the age of each person that they have been drilled and instructed. To follow the orders that lead to success and victory.

Superior hardware, superior intelligence gathering.

Under the name of conquer and rule, alas it’s we who march pass the rulers balcony where he stood and waved.