ECOTONE

Donna Jorna / Alessia Sakoff

Ecotone (noun): a transitional area of vegetation between two different plant communities; the boundary between two ecosystems.

In the gallery, Ecotone is a merging of environments, experiences, and artists. Donna Jorna and Alessia Sakoff focus their art practices on unique natural landscapes. Ink monotypes of rivers and estuaries meet paintings of mountains and forests in an entangled celebration of landscapes wild, gritty, and overgrown.

Donna Jorna

Donna Jorna is a Newcastle based artist working in the areas of painting and printmaking. Donna completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Newcastle.Recent works of Donna's focus on the natural environment, with an emphasis on the landscapes of estuaries, creeks and rivers found on the coast and inland Australia. 

Donna's monotypes are one-off unique images created by wiping away ink from an inked-up surface, working in a subtractive manner then imprinting the image on to paper.

Alessia Sakoff

Alessia Sakoff is an environmental artist based on Awabakal Country in Newcastle, Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle, she is now represented by Flinders Street Gallery in Sydney. Primarily focusing on works on paper in the past, her recent work has seen a shift of practice to oil painting.

Alessia’s latest body of work has been drawn from bushwalks through Boorganna Nature Reserve, painting and sketching out in dense rainforest areas.

Onwards Gallery
Friday 1 July. 6-9pm.
Saturday 2 -Thursday 7 July 11am-4pm.