LEE BETHEL | KEEPING TIME

Opening Event & Artist Talk Saturday 6 July, 3pm - 5pm

Lee Bethel’s studio is a luminous laboratory in the bush where encaustic wax bubbles away, works in progress are laid out flat and resource piles of torn rag paper are near to hand. For the artist, each exhibition is a record that is being extended and a form of timekeeping. In contrast, the studio is a place of process where forms grow within an elastic quality of time.

Lee Bethel is a prolific mid-career artist and active exhibitor. Recent solo exhibitions include the remarkable Diva (2024) exhibition at Woollahra Gallery which presented her intricate hand-pierced watercolours. A Way With Words (2022) was a solo presentation at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery curated within a “Quintet” of significant artists from the region. In that exhibition, Bethel presented cut paper installations that explored women’s domestic life and craft traditions. In 2023, Bethel was a finalist in the Hazelhurst Art of Paper prize, the Calleen Art Award at Cowra Regional Gallery and the Flow Contemporary Watercolour Prize.

Excerpt from exhibition essay by Melody Willis.

28/6/2024 - 20/7/2024

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