ANYWHERE
BUT HERE

by Donna Jorna

Opens 6pm Friday 03 November

Anywhere but Here’ aims to explore ideas of longing, belonging and the subconscious. 

Through the meditative process of mark making, engaged with a state of mind, psychological landscapes or ‘portals’ are created. 

Through this process shapes lend themselves to landscape forms using sources from imagination and memory. An attempt is made to create a tension between reality, memory, the imagination, and suggest an unspoken narrative of a psychological journey to a place anywhere but here.

Artist Bio

Donna Jorna is a multidisciplinary artist working in the areas of painting and printmaking.  

Her paintings and monotypes are spontaneous and expressive. She is interested in the human condition and psyche, memory, dreams and myth.

Donna’s current interests explore the landscape as metaphor, which are an expression of an inner psychological life using a visual language.

Her process involves laying of oil paint or oil based ink in a repetitive, meditative manner with no intent of outcome. These marks are then removed by sanding, scratching or wiping away then reworking and repeating the process until the marks or shapes of colour appear to lend themselves to a landscape. These landscapes may be memories of physical places, or come from the subconscious. As each work is evolves a loose narrative also emerges. The viewer is invited to read the works as they wish with the hope they view, contemplate, then reflect on their own personal understanding of the work thus enabling a subconscious connection with the artist.

Donna has a Fine Art degree completed in 2018 and completed TAFE qualifications in art and design in 1984.

Onwards Gallery
6 Torpey Place Hamilton

Opens 6-9pm. 03 November 2023
Continues Sat-Thurs 11am-4pm.