By Callum Ludwig
The YAVA gallery’s new exhibition is exploring how artists’ work can differ with age.
‘Now and Then’ features works from younger artists, as well as newer and earlier pieces from more experienced artists.
Mother and daughter duo Rachel Rose and Bonnie Dillon feature in the exhibition and Ms Rose said their works right now are quite different.
Bonnie looks online and gets a lot of inspiration from what she sees on Pinterest and gets ideas from there, and it’s too early to tell whether we will have any similarities, but I think that they grow with maturity and individualism, and maybe they’re more similar than what it appears,” she said.
“To the eye, my work would look quite different and quite developed, but actually I just see reoccurring themes that come back over and over again over the years since I was in high school.”
Ms Rose’s ‘Deep Blue #10’ ceramic piece and Bonnie’s ‘Portrait of a Giraffe’ can be found alongside each other in the exhibition.
Ms Rose said she only remembered her love for ceramics recently.
“I forgot about this for years and years, but I would spend lunchtimes in the art room making things, and I had a really great art teacher and the clay unit at high school I just loved so much,” she said.
“Hopefully my ceramics has developed, I think I made some pretty ugly, large things back then.”
Ms Rose hand builds each of her stoneware pieces using a coil technique and has found recurring themes in her artwork, in both her paintings and ceramics, to be the use of polka dots and form, such as using two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.
Bonnie’s portrait is her first piece of work, completed during Covid lockdowns.
Now and Then is on display at the YAVA Gallery until Sunday 16 July during the gallery opening hours Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm.
Attendees can vote for their favourite submission in the People’s Choice Award.
