Danielle Creenaune

DANIELLE CREENAUNE Fragile States 14 November - 6 December 2020 AU S T R A L I A N GA L L E R I E S MELBOURNE

AU S T R A L I A N GA L L E R I E S MELBOURNE

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DANIELLE CREENAUNE Fragile States Saturday 14 November 2020 11am - 5pm 28 Derby Street Collingwood VIC 3066 Current until Sunday 6 December 2020 Open 7 days 10am to 6pm T 03 9417 2422 melbourne@australiangalleries.com.au australiangalleries.com.au

Front cover: Crystal 2020 lithograph and mokulito 60 x 42 cm edition 6 E.V. Left: Portrait of the artist 2020 Photography: Tobias Rowles

‘Fragile States’ describes a parallel notion of fragility with respect to the state of our current natural environment and my own personal experience during a period of relocating to Australia after almost two decades abroad.

These works address the duality experienced both in a cultural and linguistic sense, and also within the landscape I inhabit. In this time of displacement and dislocation, my experiences were charged with sentiment, vulnerability, and a sensitivity to change. It was a period of introspection, weighing up what would be lost and gained and bearing witness to the closure of a chapter in my life. Now in Australia, I am challenged by new places of personal significance in my local area, such as wide coastal perspectives and waterfalls.

My work is concerned with the rhythms in nature and the importance of treading lightly on this borrowed land.

In this exhibition, I work in the techniques of stone lithography and mokulito, because there is a flow between the process, materials and image making. Lithography offers me a very direct way of making painterly marks within printmaking and carries with it a rich gamut of tones and textures such as reticulated washes and wood textures which mirror forms also present in nature. I walk and observe places while making quick sketches that later serve to situate myself back there with the movement, sounds and sensibilities. Back in the studio, I work on the matrix of stone or wood in a visceral manner creating a new landscape which taps into the feeling of being in that place.’

Danielle Creenaune, November 2020 Images: Artist’s studio 2020 Watch a documentary about Danielle’s work (click here)

Materia prima 2019 mokulito 70 x 100 cm edition 4 E.V.

Fragile State I 2020 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 54.5 x 41.5 cm edition 2 E.V.

Top: Fragile State II 2020 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 54.5 x 41.5 cm edition 2 E.V. Below: Fragile State III 2020 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 54.5 x 41.5 cm edition unique

Fragile State IV 2020 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 52 x 43 cm edition unique

Top: Fragile State VII 2020 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 54.5 x 41.5 cm edition unique Below: Fragile State VI 2020 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 54.5 x 41.5 cm edition unique

Fragile State V 2020 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 52 x 43 cm edition unique

The sound of leaving II 2019 lithograph and mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 52 x 43 cm edition unique

Run away into the sun 2020 mokulito and chine collĂŠ on Kinugawa ivory Japanese paper and Somerset satin white pa

aper 30 x 44.5 cm edition 6 E.V.

Silence revisited I 2019 mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 43 x 52 cm edition unique

Silence revisited II 2019 mokulito on Kitakata Japanese paper 43 x 52 cm edition unique

Return to Budderoo I 2020 stone lithograph, mokulito, chine collĂŠ 42 x 28 cm edition 9 E.V.

Smoky quartz I 2019 lithograph, mokulito, chine collĂŠ on Gampi paper 32 x 25.5 cm edition unique

Smoky quartz II 2019 lithograph, mokulito, chine collĂŠ on Gampi paper 32 x 25.5 cm edition unique

Quadern de Pedra series

1st row left to right: Quadern de Pedra 1 Quadern de Pedra 2 Quadern de Pedra 3 Quadern de Pedra 4

2018 2019 2019 2019

stone lithograph and chine collé stone lithograph and chine collé stone lithograph and chine collé stone lithograph and chine collé

26 x 32.5 cm 26 x 32.5 cm 26 x 32.5 cm 26 x 32.5 cm

edition 8 edition 12 edition 10 edition 10

2nd row left to right: Quadern de Pedra 5 2019 Quadern de Pedra 6 2018 Quadern de Pedra 7 2020 Quadern de Pedra 8 2020

stone lithograph and chine collé stone lithograph and chine collé stone lithograph and chine collé stone lithograph and chine collé

26 x 32.5 cm 26 x 32.5 cm 26 x 32.5 cm 26 x 32.5 cm

edition 10 edition 10 edition 10 edition 12

Top: Silently broken I 2020 lithograph, mokulito and chine collĂŠ on Gampi paper 15.5 x 20 cm edition unique Below: Silently broken III 2020 lithograph, mokulito and chine collĂŠ on Gampi paper 15.5 x 20 cm edition unique

Top: Silently broken II 2020 lithograph, mokulito and chine collĂŠ on Gampi paper 15.5 x 20 cm edition unique Below: Silently broken IV 2020 lithograph, mokulito and chine collĂŠ on Gampi paper 15.5 x 20 cm edition unique

Top: Boira 1 2020 lithograph, mokulito and chine collĂŠ 10 x 10 cm edition unique Below: Boira 2 2020 lithograph, mokulito and chine collĂŠ 10 x 10 cm edition unique

Boira 3 2020 lithograph, mokulito and chine collĂŠ 10 x 10 cm edition unique

DANIELLE CREENAUNE

Artist’s studio 2020

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