Jo Darvall - 'Wilding'

JO DARVALL WILDING

Wilding celebrates nature’s resilience and tenacity; her ability to reclaim territory and restore herself, ensuring existence long after humans are gone.

Jo Darvall’s perspective highlights the power of nature. This is evident in her multi-plate prints depicting Thailand Buddhist stupas decaying into the wilderness, and oil paintings of an Australian grass tree elegantly sprouting on a roadside. Here contemporary art exposes ecological crises of our own making but also their ultimate resolution by the forces of nature.

Darvall’s work articulates her sensory encounters with bushland and the ocean, arising from her frequent walks in nearby forests and coastal areas, during which she draws, paints, and listens. Her work enlivens natural spaces, expressing the free interplay between abstraction and figuration. Currently her artistic gaze combats human interference, industrial agriculture, and urbanization. The work ‘Braided Paths’ represents long worn paths which blend into a landscape studded by unruly weeds gnawed to the roots by hungry cockatoos.

Wasteland to Wilderness A, Oil on canvas, 120cm by 100cm, $8,400

Jo Darvall in her studio, Miles Noel Photography

Illustrated cover: Wilding, Oil on canvas, 138cm by 149cm, $12,800

Thailand Series: Ayuttaya Offering Blue

Unique state intaglio work on arches BFK

47.5cm by 39cm, $2,400

Wasteland to Wilderness E, Oil on canvas, 120cm by 108cm, $8,600

Thailand Series: Monkey B

Unique state intaglio work on arches BFK

47.5cm by 39cm, $2,400

Wilding C, Oil on board, 30cm by 30cm, $2,000

Wilding F, Oil on board, 30cm by 30cm, $2,000

Wilding E, Watercolour on paper, 31cm by 40.5cm, $1,500

Wilding G, Watercolour on paper, 31cm by 40.5cm, $1,500

Mapping Refugium (After Borges), A collaboration with poet Yann Toussaint, Multi print artist book, 20cm by 39.5cm, $1,800

Thailand Series: Ayuttaya Offering A

Unique state intaglio work on arches BFK

47.5cm by 39cm, $2,400

Thailand Series: Ayuttaya Offering B

Unique state intaglio work on arches BFK

47.5cm by 39cm, $2,400

Blue to Purple (Porongurup WA), Oil on canvas, 120cm by 120cm, $8,800

Wasteland to Wilderness B, Oil on canvas, 120cm by 108cm, $8,600

Wilding B, Oil on board, 30cm by 30cm, $2,000

Wastelands to Wilderness C Oil on canvas, 120cm by 100cm, $8,400

Braided Paths, Etching on steel and watercolour mono print, 78cm by 150cm, $4,600

Traversing Time - Worn Land, Watercolour mono print, etching and hand stitching, 50cm by 124cm, $2,900

Fox Galleries recognises the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the sovereign custodians of the land on which we operate. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

FOX GALLERIES

Wasteland to Wilderness D, Oil on canvas, 120cm by 108cm, $8,600