Join Scratch Art Space Artist and Founder Carmel in the Gallery for this exhibition. This is an introspective retrospective exhibition where Carmel will be revisiting her 2010 series of abstract landscape paintings Forecast. During the run of the exhibition Carmel will be in the gallery finishing off hundreds of drawings begun over the past ten years. Carmel will be hosting birthday drinks on Saturday 24 August 2024, 12 - 5pm / RSVP via website. Forecast Preceding the large scale figurative work Carmel has become so noted for, are twenty years of abstract landscape painting where she considers the relationship between land and the elements that shape it. Landscape and maps are a rich source for metaphor yet the perception of maps as Cartesian representations of the grid include all the implications associated with power, ownership and colonisation. For this series of paintings the perspective is raised to the space above land where climate and weather shape it. Firmly grounded in the heart of Sydney's creative precinct, Carmel's personal art practice has been constantly evolving, reflective of her Marrickville surrounds. Selected as a finalist for both the Salon des Refusés and Rick Amor Drawing Prize in 2024, Carmel has been included in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award as a finalist in 2022 and winner in 2020, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2022) and Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (2021) and exhibited with Wagner Contemporary by invitation. @carmelbyrneart