A thought-provoking exhibition has come to Geelong Gallery to contemplate the human condition and challenge society through colour and painting.
Lines of Sight: Frame and Horizon exhibition opened on Saturday, May 24, and will run until August 17 to present the first major survey of Janenne Eaton’s artistic practice.
Ms Eaton said the free exhibition was spread over five of Geelong Gallery’s spaces, and visitors would encounter more than 40 years of her work.
“I am hoping that members of the public, particularly from Geelong, will locate something amongst the field of works that they find stimulating and which they can relate to,” she said.
“The majority of the works on display are paintings that communicate reflections on aspects of our history, politics, social concerns and some of those urgent issues that reflect local and international events.
“What I love most about my work is the freedom to do it without censure. It’s the freedom to express my own personal points of view from the position I occupy as an ordinary person in the world, about our world.
“Having parents who always encouraged me in whatever I chose to do, was a critical factor in my pursuit of these means, to somehow try to make sense of the sometimes confusing world around me.”
Ms Eaton said her paintings and installations explored environmental, historical, and political concerns, along with the impact of a globalised and digital ecology on the individual, communities, and nature.
