PAIGE NORTHWOOD
Paige Northwood, breath, 2022
PREVIOUS EXHIBITION | SUBTLER AND SUBTLER STILL
We are delighted to announce our upcoming solo exhibition with Australian artist Paige Northwood, 'Subtler And Subtler Still'. The exhibition will continue through to Saturday 26th March 2022.
In a gentle departure from the central Australian desert, ‘subtler and subtler still’ signifies Northwood’s coastal homecoming to the shores of Stanwell Park after living and practicing in the outback for the past 3 years. Where the interconnectedness between place, spirituality, and transformation have informed her previous bodies of work, this new exhibition witnesses the artist go inward like never before.
Born from deeply personal experiences while meditating, ‘subtler and subtler still’ explores the nuances of our internal worlds. This new body of work reflects Northwood's curiosity about brainwave states during meditation, transcendental experiences, and the spaces we inhabit while we achieve various states of mind in silence. Read more
Paige Northwood ‘shadow’ series of ceramic tablets.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
’MEDITATIONS ON RED’
11TH MARCH – 10TH APRIL 2021
Through her creative process centred in ritual and catharsis, Meditations On Red sees Northwood explore themes of ceremony, womanhood, and life cycles. Drawing on her experiences of living on country in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and Ntaria (Hermannsburg), informed by her time living and working alongside Aboriginal artists and communities, through her embodied approach to mark-making Northwood reflects on all she has learned and encountered. Extending on the artist’s previous bodies of work that have utilised found materials and pigments reminiscent of her immediate surroundings in the desert of central Australia, the exhibition considers the interconnectedness between place, spirituality, and transformation.
‘LOVE AND FEAR’
9TH OF JUNE – 27TH OF JUNE 2020
Delving into the artist’s internal felt frequencies of love and fear in relation to the current global climate, these six new paintings see Northwood further investigate the visceral connection between nature, place and the body. Responding to the recent east coast bushfires and the global pandemic, Love and Fear interrogates universal feelings of uncertainty/anxiety versus compassion/empathy, and asks what is needed in order to heal and prevail; together. Northwood navigates this concept in her tactile and dynamic abstract paintings, which in hindsight she describes as “both inner and outer landscapes” — reflective not only of her own experiences but our collective experiences at large.
‘COMPANY’
16TH OF JANUARY – 1ST OF FEBRUARY 2020
The exhibition sees Northwood return to the definition of company, exploring the meaning it holds in the Australian desert, both physically and spiritually. The physical aspect of company is reflected in the works through the artist’s exposure to the deep sense of community felt in remote Indigenous communities, which encourages people to come together and share knowledge. The spiritual meaning of company acknowledges the esoteric energies that are ever-present in Indigenous life and culture, where spirits are addressed, respected and spoken of openly as they roam country. Most significantly, Northwood experienced the spiritual and physical coming together around the campfire which provided a poignant place to make this new body of work.
‘SACRED LIFE’
25TH OF JULY – 17TH OF AUGUST 2019
Sacred Life is an exhibition that investigates themes of bodily experience and transcendence, and the notions and learnings that come with living remotely. The exhibition sees Northwood explore the potential of her body through physical mark making in a personal attempt to be present and completely aware of her own existence and creative output. This personal commitment to self was initiated in the Northern Territory, far from Northwood’s origins on the South Coast, New South Wales. At large, Sacred Life acknowledges the precious nature of our existence and the unique individual and collective experiences we share.
‘THE MIND THAT BENDS’
22ND OF MARCH – 7TH OF APRIL 2018
The Mind That Bends marks the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. Exploring the potential of clay, vessels and hanging ceramic works comes together in an ode to the coastal influences of the artist’s immediate surroundings. Abstract organic forms coalesce, bringing with them a palpable energy that speaks to Northwood’s felt awareness of both the natural and spiritual worlds.
Australian artist Paige Northwood at Simpsons Gap, NT
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Paige Northwood is an Australian artist who uses the earth to express both inner and outer landscapes. Jerico Contemporary has shown four solo shows with the multi-disciplinary artist. Over the past years, the artist has lived between two distinct landscapes: the Illawarra coast south of Sydney, New South Wales and the desertscape of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. As Northwood travels across the country and adjusts to the nuances of her surroundings, so too does her work.
Paige Northwood was born in 1988. Her solo exhibitions include, 'Meditations On Red', Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2021), ‘Love and Fear’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2020), ‘Company’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2020), 'Sacred Life', Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2019) and ‘The Mind That Bends’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2018). Her group exhibitions include, 'Here & Now', Wollongong Art Gallery (2018), ‘Barkers & Biters’, aMBUSH, Sydney (2018), ‘Synchronicity’, Clifton School of Arts, Clifton (2016), ‘Overture’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2016). The artist currently lives and works in Stanwell Park, NSW.
“My process is about getting out of the head and into the body. It’s freedom from thought. The point of my work is to be in the flow on each mark, a graceful and playful dance. The rhythmic energy that flows on the paper is an expression of a larger vibrating power. I attempt to connect to this and honour this; my unity and oneness with something much larger”.
– PAIGE NORTHWOOD, ‘SACRED LIFE’
