The enchantment of things

NAOMI ZOUWER

9 July - 20 August 2022

Naomi Zouwer is interested in the way inanimate objects call to us, appealing to our senses and inviting us to appreciate their materiality and particular charms of pattern, colour, texture or story. Drawing upon the tradition of still life painting and rhopography - the depiction of trivial items - Zouwer revels in the enchantment of objects that are ignored and overlooked in everyday life.

Zouwer works across drawing, printmaking, painting and textiles, making works that engage with ideas of cultural heritage, identity and the social role of personal objects. Recently, Zouwer has explored the process of translation from one medium to another, reworking and remaking her paintings and collages into lithographs, screenprints and etchings.

The information that is inevitably lost and found in this process has fed back into her creative practice. It is here in this process of translation that the exhibition takes shape; in the finished and unfinished works, fails and wins, and studio experiments that reveal and celebrate these objects that “call”.

Opening: Wednesday 13 July

Join us from 5pm - 7pm for the opening of Naomi Zouwer’s exhibition The enchantment of things. This event will be officially opened by Virginia Rigney, senior curator at Canberra Museum & Gallery. The opening will also be the formal launch of Megalo Editions, a new limited edition print initiative at Megalo Print Studio.

Megalo Editions is a new initiative in contemporary collaborative printmaking. The first iteration of Megalo Editions features limited edition prints by four contemporary artists who work across multiple disciplines:

Joel Arthur (Kamberri/Canberra)

Tom Buckland (Kamberri/Canberra)

Tony Curran (Iutruwita/Tasmania)

Naomi Zouwer (Kamberri/Canberra)

This opening event has now ended.

Events and Activities:

Saturday 23 July: Explore the exhibition at our free artist talk, 11am-12pm in the Megalo gallery.

Come and hear Kamberri/Canberra artist Naomi Zouwer in this Q&A style panel discussion, together with printer Clare Jackson and Stephen Payne, CEO and Artistic Director, Megalo Print Studio as they speak about the ideas and processes behind Zouwer’s current exhibition, The enchantment of things. To book, follow the link below.

Saturday 20 + Sunday 21 August: Join the artist for a special workshop, Enchanting Objects with Naomi Zouwer, to coincide with her exhibition - limited spaces, bookings essential.

The enchantment of things is on display 9 July - 20 August

Megalo is open 9.30am - 5pm | Tuesday - Saturday