Works created for Ash Island and its Transformations

Group Exhibit The Lock Up art space 

September 2014

Group show with a specific geographic focus on newcastle’s historically preserved Ash Island, works include large scale en plain air drawing created on location at Ash Island in the mangroves and installed on site at The Lock Up Art Space.

smaller exhibited studies on paper stained using material and collected water from the island.

Nicola Hensel’s intensely detailed ink drawings, Ash Island, purposefully mimic the Sisters’ acts of observation and execution. Not only does Hensel position her practice on the island and draw ‘from the life’, she recreates the intensely private yet dynamic geometry between the eye, the pen, the subject, the paper surface and ultimately the viewer. Belinda Howden, Curator.

Blue Almanac is a record of time. Deep slow time, seasonal time, daily cyclical time and the infinite stack of present lines and moments on a blank surface that record our experiences.

Rising as one falls, there is a shadow version of the day, alive in slumber and quietly there.