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The show explores themes relating to identity, belonging, memory, healing, and the female gaze through photography, painting, collage, ceramics, installation and film.
In Search of Peace and Love amongst the Flowers is a group exhibition of recent works by 15 contemporary female artists.
The show explores themes relating to identity, belonging, memory, healing, and the female gaze through various mediums, including photography, painting, collage, ceramics, installation and film, inviting a discussion between the body, figuration, abstraction, landscape and the viewer. Throughout the exhibition, the artists have explored materials, textures, colour and scale to reflect upon peace, love and mother nature.
Gardens are commonly considered feminine and represent fertility, filled with narratives representing the beginning of life, symbolising love and passion. In Western iconography, the image of the garden has been shaped and defined by the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, sent far away from their paradise due to tasting the forbidden fruit and thus sent into the wilderness.
Here, the artists offer their unique vision from a female perspective, filled with vivid images relating to mythology, the divine feminine, goddesses, the sublime, nature, the Me-Too movement, the female gaze, shedding a new perspective on the historical canon of art that for so long has been controlled by men.
