Exhibition Opening: Saturday 8 July from 2 – 4 pm. This July, Artereal Gallery is excited to present a solo exhibition of recent works by Simone Douglas. Based between New York and Sydney, Douglas is widely respected as an important Australian contemporary artist. A true ‘artist’s artist,’ she is particularly well known for her poetic, ethereal and mysterious photographic odes to the land, sea and sky. Embracing photography, video, and an ephemeral ice-sculpture, An Ocean in Your Hand (verse II), spans a luminescent field of colours and lyrical monotones responding to water and sky. Douglas describes her latest work as being “made using ‘slow time’. Evoking processes of elemental change, where actions and environment form entwined narratives and suggest an unfolding eternity of being. In these works water is not only the primary ‘medium’ but also a metaphorical holder of sky, land, and light.” – Rhianna Melhem, Curator