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Light Fandango by Jackie Gorring and Minna Graham

Ross Creek Gallery

183 Post Office Road,
Smythes creek VIC 3351

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  • Sat 29 Nov 1pm–4pm
  • Sun 30 Nov 11am–4pm
  • Sat 6 Dec 11am–4pm

Ross Creek Gallery proudly presents Light Fandango, a vibrant joint exhibition by mother and daughter artists Jackie Gorring and Minna Graham.

Jackie Gorring and Minna Graham present deeply personal, expressive works that explore the poetic terrain between chaos and calm, inner world and outer landscape. Although working in distinct media, Gorring in print and sculpture, Graham in ceramics, their practices are bound by emotional resonance, spontaneity, and a shared dialogue with nature and memory.

Jackie Gorring's work is intuitive, layered, and richly narrative. Drawing inspiration from everyday moments, family stories, travel through Asia, and the social fabric around her, she weaves together signage, snippets of conversation, and fleeting impressions. Her art reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary, offering a vibrant lens into the humour, rhythm, and reflection of lived experience.

Minna Graham's sculptural ceramics channel the wild energy of natural environments. Using clay, ash, pigment, and raw techniques like tearing, carving and stretching, her vessels become "emotional landscapes", tactile explorations of tension, wonder, and fragility. Her forms evoke the push and pull between beauty and menace.

Together, this exhibition invites viewers to navigate between connection and solitude, wildness and domesticity, revealing two generational voices in intimate, dynamic conversation through material, memory, and mark-making.

Content: Ruby Pilven

Dates & Times

  • Sat 29 Nov 1pm–4pm
  • Sun 30 Nov 11am–4pm
  • Sat 6 Dec 11am–4pm
  • Sun 7 Dec 11am–4pm
  • Sat 13 Dec 11am–4pm
  • Sun 14 Dec 11am–4pm
  • Sat 20 Dec 11am–4pm
  • Sun 21 Dec 11am–4pm
  • Sat 27 Dec 11am–4pm
  • Sun 28 Dec 11am–4pm

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