Exhibitions / Memento -Pictures of you

01.10.2022 to 26.11.2022

 

Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra, NSW

‘Memento – pictures of you’ (after The Cure) are personal works of the artist’s loving relationship of this land and its inhabitants, during her three years spent in residence at Bundanon Trust and the Shoalhaven region.

Consisting of paintings and works on paper, combinations of ‘free style’ Australian ikebana landscape arrangements with fauna, predominately of the loving pair of Gang Gang cockatoos that visited her daily in Tapitallee.

Initially Kalabishis set herself a journey to create works of the Shoalhaven river, the Bundanon floor to sky to sea. However due to historic circumstances preventing her from returning to the region for two years, these visions shifted into nostalgic mementos of the romantic landscapes she walked and ran, stopping to gather foliage for arrangements under the watchful eyes of its inhabitants.

The Greek poet Callimachus’ poignant poem leveraged this art journey to push Kalabishis’ own unique visual language of the Australian landscape.

’Leave open ways and trodden tracks alone and go the way that’s narrow but your own’.

 

"I gratefully acknowledge the wonderful and enduring support of these organisations and people in my life over this five year period: The Wodi Wodi of the Yuin Nation, The Shoalhaven Regional Gallery and staff, Bronwyn Coulston, Bridget Macleod, Rahima Miriam and Eva Hampel. The Bundanon Trust and staff: a heartfelt thank you to Yvonne and Arthur Boyd and Family, Deborah Ely, Julie Ryan ( for her faith in me, the art work and her generous hospitality, John Baylis, Ralph Dixon (for the special gang gang cockatoos and incredible hospitatlity), Jennifer Thompson, Charies Matugas, Michael Blount, Mary Preece, Jim Birkett and Gary Hogan. Artist Profile: Victoria Hynes, Erin McFadyen, Kon Gouriotis. Neos Kosmos: Iris Papathanasiou. Dr Ryan Jefferies (Science Gallery, Melbourne University), Hamish Coates, Eamon Coates, Alexander Coates, Anya Mckee, David Keys and Tamara McGuane (Art Spectrum) Claire Harris (Flinders Lane Gallery), Jenny Collodetti, Michael Varcoe-Cocks,The Aboriginal Community Elders Services Inc (ACES), Dr Mal Eutick, John McDonald and Dr Leigh Summers (EMSLA), Nicole Moore (LALC) TarraWarra Museum of Art. 
And the unique flora, fauna and environment of the south coast NSW.
"
Gina Kalabishis 2022

This show is dedicated to the late Inga Clendinnen, AO, FAHA, Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic, and the late Jim Birkett, Artist and art educator at Bundanon Trust.

Everywhere (after Fleetwood Mac) 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

Everywhere (after Fleetwood Mac)  2022

oil on linen

198 x 137cm

Into the mystic (after Van Morrison) 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

Into the mystic (after Van Morrison)  2022

oil on linen

198 x 137cm

I'll stand by you (after Pretenders) 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

I'll stand by you (after Pretenders)  2022

oil on linen

198 x 137cm

Isn't she lovely 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

Isn't she lovely  2022

oil on linen

198 x 137cm

Badagarang (Dharawal 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

Badagarang (Dharawal  2022

oil on linen

198 x 137cm

Caring for you 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

Caring for you  2022

ink and watercolour on paper (framed) Private collection

60 x 60cm

Love in the depths of you 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

Love in the depths of you  2022

oil on linen

122 x 91cm

Wattle and She-oak 2022 by Gina Kalabishis

Wattle and She-oak  2022

Pastel on velour paper

192 x 136 cm

Soeur Francaise no.1 (French Sister) 2020 by Gina Kalabishis

Soeur Francaise no.1 (French Sister)  2020

Ink and gouache on Saunders Waterford watercolour paper, Private collection.

75cm x 56cm

Beyond the Sea no.4 2020 by Gina Kalabishis

Beyond the Sea no.4  2020

ink and gouache on watercolour paper, Private collection

69 x 50 cm

Beyond the Sea no.1 2020 by Gina Kalabishis

Beyond the Sea no.1  2020

Ink and gouche on watercolour paper, Private collection

75 x 56cm

The times they are a changin’ (after Bob Dylan) Bundanon Blue 2020 by Gina Kalabishis

The times they are a changin’ (after Bob Dylan) Bundanon Blue  2020

Ink and gouache on Watercolour paper

75 x 56cm, Private Collection

Shoalhaven River 2019 by Gina Kalabishis

Shoalhaven River  2019

ink and gouache on watercolour paper, Private collection

69x50cm

Madam Butterfly (after Malcolm McLaren) 2019 by Gina Kalabishis

Madam Butterfly (after Malcolm McLaren)  2019

oil on linen

153cm x 122cm

Bundanon Floor to Sky - You are always part of me now (after Van Morrison) 2018 by Gina Kalabishis

Bundanon Floor to Sky - You are always part of me now (after Van Morrison)  2018

oil on linen

215cm x 366cm (triptych), Private Collection

Bundanon anew - One more night (After Michael Kiwanuka) 2018 by Gina Kalabishis

Bundanon anew - One more night (After Michael Kiwanuka)  2018

oil on linen

198cm x 152cm

Romeo & Juliet (after Dire Straits) 2018 by Gina Kalabishis

Romeo & Juliet (after Dire Straits)  2018

oil on linen

153cm x 122cm

3B's No.3 Bundanon - Boyd - Blind 2018 by Gina Kalabishis

3B's No.3 Bundanon - Boyd - Blind  2018

Carbon drawing print on colour fix paper

70cm x 50cm

'Passing Pulpit Rock - Distant Sky (After Nick Cave and Else Torp)' 2017 by Gina Kalabishis

'Passing Pulpit Rock - Distant Sky (After Nick Cave and Else Torp)'  2017

oil on linen

124cm x 86cm