Dip Beneath The Horizon evokes that transitional nether time when day slides away and the sun goes beneath the horizon and the moon is not yet risen. The title signifies for Emily Ebbs the stage of her life now – a time of thinking, sinking, letting go… A time for reflection and releasing from her early life shared with her three siblings and their childhood marked by abusive trauma and maternal addictive behaviours and emotional and physical absences. Years on, Emily is the current Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre Nancy Fairfax Studio Artist-in Residence, a prize awarded her on graduation with a Master’s Degree from the National Art School in 2022. She will create a body of work in response to her emotions and the ambience evoked by the ephemeral objects and art from Margaret Olley’s Paddington home now installed as a recreation in the Tweed Gallery’s Margaret Olley Art Centre. Emily’s responses will be exhibited at the Tweed Regional Gallery in 2024. – Barbara Dowse, Curator