Exhibition – Katrina Collins, Elizabeth Elliott, Mark Lennox

Friendships forged in the dog park lead to a discussion of a myriad of subjects. Family, friends, doctors, plumbers, dentists, hairdressers, good TV, bad TV, good dog, bad dog and art. 

Katrina Collins, Elizabeth Elliott and Mark Lennox share a drive to make art using similar sensibilities of colour, form and pattern in their work.

Katrina, primarily an abstract painter, has moved towards figurative work as she explores the potential of shadows, colour and light in suburban Haberfield.

The inspiration for Mark’s work comes through the observation of human, animal and plant forms from a range of historical eras. Mark uses solid geometry to simplify form and to reveal the essence of his subject as he creates timber sculptural objects that connect to the observer's own emotional memory. As Mark states, “Our creative urge continues unabated, the product of which sustains us and others around us.”

Elizabeth Elliott’s work is concerned with “DIY Kith and Kin”. She states that “Adoption is an age-old practice. The 1950s was not always comfortable with this truth.” Blood line was deemed preferable and in Elizabeth’s case, Jennifer May, became Elizabeth Mary. Her practice of digital printmaking and painting explores memory of those who love her unconditionally, despite her being known as a "coot of a kid”.