Cumulus
$3,750.00
About Artist
Grace Gladdish has worked as a practicing artist for over three decades. Originally from Brisbane, where she completed a degree in Visual Art, Grace relocated to rural Tasmania in 2009. Grace was drawn to her new surroundings and the landscape took over as her principle subject matter.
Grace’s art practice changed significantly after the birth of her youngest child, who has complex needs and requires a high level of support and care. Grace shifted her art practice to relief printmaking, a method that can be easily separated into distinct stages and processes.
Five years ago, a move from Turrakana/the Tasmanian Peninsula to the foothills of Kunanyi, above Hobart, found Grace discovering a new range of subject matter: the alpine environment of the mountain itself. Grace’s art continues to progress and shift as she investigates collage creations, using her relief prints as source material to make new work and investigate new methods of interpreting the raw imagery of the mountain landscape. Grace is noted for her complex, technically sophisticated work and her distinct portrayals of Tasmanian environments. Her work has been shown in galleries across Australia and she recently won the Highly Commended award in the Bay of Fires Art Prize. Grace holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Artist Statement
The alpine landscapes of Tasmania have been a rich source of inspiration for my work. Recently I’ve begun to rip up old linoprints and refit them. I love drawing with the found lines within the older work, finding ways they connect as if mapping the paths I’ve taken in the landscape. Cumulus (piled up, gathered over a period of time), describes both the formation of the landscape and the process I’ve used to make the work. It has an airy connotation that I love, as if the weight of the rocks has dissipated and the mountain has begun to float.