EXHIBITION: FEAR AND MIGHT BY LEAH FRASER
BY LISA LERKENFELDT
A limb exposed amongst fauna, hair replaced by foliage, ocean deep eyes. The subjects of Sydney painter Leah Fraser possess a magnetic organic voltage.
With surrealist hints and metaphors of what it feels like to be wild, her subjects nest somewhere between reality and the subconscious. Primitive in their presence, her fluid compositions are a tent hole, an invitation, to a dreamscape where fear surrenders to hope. As a response to the familiar and the intimate, her humanesque creatures, birds, wolves and fauna are doused in magic and layered in mysticism.
Fraser’s second solo show at Black & Blue Gallery, Fear and Might, promises an annex to her oil, ink and watercolour works with a kinetic installation of suspended birds and short poems accompanying the art works.
Although often accompanied by darkness, Fraser’s manifestations rest with luminosity and an open heart longing to welcome you home.
April 10-26. Black & Blue, 302/267-271 Cleveland St, Redfern. www.blackandbluegallery.com.au
