04/12/2025
MY MUM AND BEST FRIEND AND UNCLE ARE PUTTING ON A GALLERY SHOW TOMORROW
COME ON DOWNNNN!!!
Offerings is a collaborative exhibition between three artists Rachel Brown, David Glenister and Opie. Join us for our final show of the year opening 5th December
Rachel Brown is a Brunswick-based clay sculptor who has honed her process with studies at Geelong Studio and SOCA. Her creative process is deeply influenced by nature, spirituality, and the cosmos. To create her unique sculptures, Rachel employs a range of techniques, including recycling and carving clay, designing handmade glazes, and incorporating melted metals. This labor-intensive process can take several weeks to complete, as it involves drying and mixing different clays, incorporating found objects, carving, drawing, and glaze creation.
David has been exhibiting paintings and drawings for over 30 years, in both group and solo shows. Each series of works has described aspects of the particular environment David lived in at the time; Footscray, Kensington, Brunswick, Cottlesbridge (where David and wife Anja, a musician and writer, enjoyed a residency at Clifton Pugh's Dunmoochin Studios from 2002-2004), Lilydale, Preston, and for the past twelve years Kilsyth near Mount Dandenong. David's works almost always begin in close observation, but as they progress may accumulate references from other sources. The titles speak for themselves! David is primarily a colorist.
Opie graduated from the National Art School in 2015 and has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally. Her practice centres on abstraction, colour, and the sensory dialogue between memory, emotion and the natural world.
In Offerings, Opie presents a body of work developed from remembered and imagined landscapes, fragments of experience reassembled through vibrant yet meditative fields of colour. The paintings invite reflection and quiet engagement, offering viewers an open space to project their own memories and sensations.
Within the broader conversation of Offerings, Opie's work sits as a gesture of calm observation - an exploration of organic form and emotional resonance that speaks to the shared human desire