Ailsa Coulson
On My Way
23 -30 November 2024
gutter gods ,
they tell me to grow tall
see me stutter and trudge
through their city, through their mud
and like buildings or trees,
tower and shrink away,
movement, monument,
caught small, blown large;
I’m dreaming and walking,
of roads as rivers.
We are fictive in our memories, inventing narratives, and re-imaging this world based on our experiences of it. Through the lens of a messy collection of myth fragments, we relate these memories to art media, seeing our experiences reflected in more truth, even if it is biased, always craving rationale closer to image/pattern consciousness than the miscommunication and banality of reality.
World building in a daydream, grounding images in place with motif, experimenting with a vision of city life. Here where the land is younger than God, and still alive, and you weave a life in awe of many small deities slinking through the crowds. If gods/mythos belong to a place and a people, what happens to them when the place changes through urbanisation, and the people change through globalisation?
On My Way, 2024, oil on canvas, 410 x 310mm
I remember you, 2024, oil on canvas, 410 x 310mm
Jandle, 2024, gouache on card, 157 x 205mm
Winz office walk, 2024, gouache on card, 300 x 325mm
Up the River down the Creek, 2024, gouache on card, 365 x 295mm.
That’s wild, 2024, gouache on card, 260 x 295mm.
Come with me. Mission for wider things, 2024, gouache on card, 160 x 295mm.
Oh, homgrown!, 2024, gouache on card, 295 x 175mm
Southerly, 2024, gouache on card, 210 x 295mm.
Public / puBlic. 2024, gouache on card, 300 x 210mm.
Gutter Hug, 2024, gouache on card, 285 x 140mm
Panic in Surburbia, 2024, gouache on card, 200 x 150mm.
Look! 2024, gouache on card, 175 x 135mm.
When is it coming, 2024, oil on canvas, 305 x 305mm.
Damp Mistress, 2024, gouache on card, 155 x 125mm.
Bus Spirit, 2024, gouache on card, 135 x 125mm.
Kingdom/ Turf. 2024, gouache on card, 125 x 125mm.
Hamish, 2024, gouache on card, 150 x 210mm.
Staying still for too long, 2024, gouache on card, 415 x 295mm
Angel Shuf, 2024, gouache on card, 420 x 295mm
Leisure. 2024, gouache on card, 420 x 295mm.
Babies, 2024, gouache on card, 126 x 129mm.
Headphones on, 2024, gouache on card, 157 x 176mm.
Teary times at the flat, 2024, oil on canvas, 405 x 305mm.
Off work and downtown, 2024, oil on canvas, 405 x 305mm.
OMG letsgodancinggg, 2024, oil on canvas, 405 x 305mm.
Crossing the river, crossing the road, 2024, oil on canvas, 405 x 305mm.