ON EXHIBITION @ The Centre Beaudesert

 

PAPER

CONTEMPORARY ARTWORKS BY PAPER ARTISTS
HEATHER MATTHEW and ZELA BISSETT


9 JAN - 11 MAR 2023
 

WHERE

The Centre Beaudesert,
82 Brisbane Street, Beaudesert
FREE ENTRY
 

GALLERY
HOURS

Tues-Fri 10am-4pm; Sat 10am-2pm. 
Closed public holidays  |  All Welcome
 

ENQUIRIES

5540 5050 |

 

left images
top: Heather Matthew Crisis What Crisis? (detail)
lower: Zela Bissett Wetlands Flamingo (detail)

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

PAPER is an exhibition of contemporary artworks by Heather Matthew and Zela Bissett sharing the artists' personal journeys of home, resilience, hope and recovery through the fascinating medium of handmade paper.

Join us as we explore their stories of fragility and strength reflected in the alluring tactile qualities of handmade paper.

Heather Matthew

This body of work about paper as a narrative of resilience, hope and creative validation.

As a paper artist I use the fragility and strength of paper as a metaphor for new ways to consider our capacity for resilience.

My artworks tell stories of human occupation and an environment in crisis from bushfires, floods and socio/political dispossession.  more  

 

Zela Bissett

The series of works in this exhibition concern the impacts of extreme weather on a place very close to my heart - K’gari, the beautiful island also called Fraser Island. 

It was a place of joy and plenty for the Butchulla people who spent a large part of each year there until colonisation. As a high schooler in the 1970s I knew a man called John Sinclair who knew Butchulla people well and shared their love for the beautiful island, devoting most of his life to preventing the ravages of sand-mining, logging and overuse.  more