Imbi Davidson
House of Cards
Aug 5 - Aug 29, 2022
Exhibition views by Ashley Mackevicius
Imbi Davidson
b. 1978, Adelaide, South Australia
Lives and works in Corndale, NSW
Imbi Davidson is a visual artist living in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales. Her work explores the interstices between painting, landscape, plants, textiles, abstraction and mark making.
Imbi's work is largely inspired by the experience and memory of the Australian landscape, finding expression in its myriad forms, patterns, patinas, contours and colours. Her abstract paintings are intuitive responses to these multiple elements, overlaid with juxtapositions of opaque and translucent layers, interspersed with expressive marks of wild colours.
Working with a range of mixed media from blood, rock, earth, pigment, paint, water and plants, Imbi is fascinated with found objects and paints on recycled objects, canvases, boards and surfaces.
Imbi was awarded an Australian Post Graduate Award to complete her Masters of Visual Arts, researching the art of native plants in Australia, with a focus on Indigenous and abstract representations of plants and the landscape. Her MA Thesis, The Casuarina Tree - Visual Translations of Native Plants and Art in Australia (2012), is catalogued in the National Library of Australia. Imbi was awarded an Australia Council Emerging Artist Mentorship Grant, to work with artist/ mentor India Flint.
City of Light, 2022, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Sky Door, 2022, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Shuffle, 2022, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Heaven’s Gate, 2022, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Precipice, 2022, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Gateway, 2022, recycled paint on board, 100 x 120cm
Passage, 2022, recycled paint on board, 104 x 120cm
Steps to Valhalla I-IV, 2022, recycled paint on board, each 40 x 120cm
Blood Bank, 2022, recycled paint on paper, 51 x 63.5cm
Dream Road, 2022, recycled paint on paper, 51 x 63.5cm
Factor 9, 2022, recycled paint on paper, 51 x 63.5cm
House of Cards, 2022, recycled paint on paper, 51 x 63.5cm
Pathways, 2022, recycled paint on paper, 51 x 63.5cm
North Wind, 2022, recycled paint on paper, 51 x 63.5cm