Ideal States and Sacred Places
A 64-page book of paintings and sculptures in glass cloches by Pennie Steel.
There a some books still available for pickup directly from Gang Gang Gallery (info@gggallery.com.au) and Pennie Steel (steelreid@bigpond.com)
We carry with us, both internally and externally, physically and mentally, memories, learned experiences, cultural differences, spiritual values and expectations and through these we form ourselves.
As a female, I look very much to the internalization of these complexities and my art is informed by my debate.
There is something intrinsically humanly female about the need to make spaces which reflect the desire to make comfortable and safe places.
The paintings explore the notion of personae and cultural mythologies and the poetry of
the spaces between the self and its manifestations. They are related through a common theme.
The imagined towns and cities and ancient settlements manifest in the paintings and constructed within the safe confines of the cloches, are reminiscent of places remembered, experienced and dreamed of.
The works are informed and shaped by cultural differences, which are heightened by the very nature of displacement, migration or journeying from one place to another.
I have brought them into existence.
They are of nowhere and yet
they are everywhere.
Pennie Steel.
A 64-page book of paintings and sculptures in glass cloches by Pennie Steel.
There a some books still available for pickup directly from Gang Gang Gallery (info@gggallery.com.au) and Pennie Steel (steelreid@bigpond.com)
We carry with us, both internally and externally, physically and mentally, memories, learned experiences, cultural differences, spiritual values and expectations and through these we form ourselves.
As a female, I look very much to the internalization of these complexities and my art is informed by my debate.
There is something intrinsically humanly female about the need to make spaces which reflect the desire to make comfortable and safe places.
The paintings explore the notion of personae and cultural mythologies and the poetry of
the spaces between the self and its manifestations. They are related through a common theme.
The imagined towns and cities and ancient settlements manifest in the paintings and constructed within the safe confines of the cloches, are reminiscent of places remembered, experienced and dreamed of.
The works are informed and shaped by cultural differences, which are heightened by the very nature of displacement, migration or journeying from one place to another.
I have brought them into existence.
They are of nowhere and yet
they are everywhere.
Pennie Steel.
A 64-page book of paintings and sculptures in glass cloches by Pennie Steel.
There a some books still available for pickup directly from Gang Gang Gallery (info@gggallery.com.au) and Pennie Steel (steelreid@bigpond.com)
We carry with us, both internally and externally, physically and mentally, memories, learned experiences, cultural differences, spiritual values and expectations and through these we form ourselves.
As a female, I look very much to the internalization of these complexities and my art is informed by my debate.
There is something intrinsically humanly female about the need to make spaces which reflect the desire to make comfortable and safe places.
The paintings explore the notion of personae and cultural mythologies and the poetry of
the spaces between the self and its manifestations. They are related through a common theme.
The imagined towns and cities and ancient settlements manifest in the paintings and constructed within the safe confines of the cloches, are reminiscent of places remembered, experienced and dreamed of.
The works are informed and shaped by cultural differences, which are heightened by the very nature of displacement, migration or journeying from one place to another.
I have brought them into existence.
They are of nowhere and yet
they are everywhere.
Pennie Steel.