IF I MADE YOU A MOUNTAIN

SHELLAINE GODBOLD

Exhibition Dates: 1 June - 1 August 2015

If I made you a mountain is a new series of work by Shellaine Godbold which explores the relationship of self to place.  Recently returned from a trip to her grandmothers’ home town in western Queensland, Shellaine has created a series of large scale drawings which are a deeply personal record of her connection to this area.  While the work references elements of a known landscape the drawings are not easily identifiable landscapes.  Mountains are divorced from their surrounds and float in a white space – a fragment of memory drawn out onto the paper.  Subtle watercolour washes suggest not only rivers and streams but also blood vessels and veins. 

Image: Shellaine Godbold If I made you a mountain you would fall down and tremble 2015