A BIRD IN THE BUSH... Pleasance Ingle
JUNE 10 -21
opening 10 June 6 pm 8pm
ARTIST TALK: 14 June 11am

"I never intended to make so many images of this one bird, the Brown Cuckoo Dove; but as one finished another emerged. These elegant and serene birds are completely unfazed by humans. They usually move around in small groups, and they spent as much time looking at me as I did at them. So I began to imagine these disjointed conversations going on between them. Human conversations really, told with an imagined shadowy subtext in some cases." | @pleasance_ingle

Pleasance Ingle is a painter, and has been making art for as long as she remembers. There was no doubt that she would spend her life making art, but the demands of life. A wife, a mother an educator. A life that also led her into the theatre, working with costumes, keeping actors clad for seasons of performance. Theatre fed into her painting, as have all her occupations, since living in the Blue Mountains, she has built a new studio from which to watch birds and listen to the trees while making new work

As a teacher she admits that her students taught her as much as she showed them. Their originality and energy were lessons in themselves. Her own children taught her how complicated things could be, and how wonderful too.
With art (usually) being about our inner worlds, this is her way to process and engage with all sorts of existential questions and observations that could be allegories of the human condition.

Pleasance has a Bachelor of Art (Education) and has been exhibiting for 4 decades, has had 14 solo shows and been a finalist in numerous art prizes.