Zoe Grey - Artist Interview - Just Between Us

2 - 26 June 2021
Despard Gallery is excited to present the latest video in our Artist Interview Series featuring emerging Tasmanian painter, Zoe Grey. Listen to Zoe describe how Marrawah continues to inspire her practice and how painting has become an important tool to visualise the felt experiences of ‘calling out’ to place and her creative ‘response’.
'Painting aims to reveal how re-calling and re-presenting place helps to deepen and strengthen my connection with home. The work reflects and questions how the act of painting can be a process in unpacking, maintaining and nurturing a relationship to this special environment. Each work depicting place in an attempt to better understand my sense of place.'
Zoe Grey graduated in 2018 with First Class Honours from the School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania. Her work is held in private collections across Australia as well as internationally. Alongside holding exhibitions nationally, recent achievements include being a finalist in the 2021 Hadley’s Art Prize and being awarded a month-long artist residency on King Island.

[@RogerQuesnel-turner1]

Love your work ethic and process. Very nice

[@noname2day394]

To me these sort of paintings bring back memories of certain places and with the memory of a place feelings i felt back then, or people that i met. Indeed art doesnt have to be obly realism to make you feel something.

[@carolebandiniart]

Très touchant comme peinture. Merci beaucoup

[@wasesaart2393]

Amazing ,Nice artwork

[@bycourtesy7028]

Nice work.

[@hajiabdalla5772]

Beautiful

[@user-ow7ye2nr3z]

سلام على ابداع لواحتك

[@KheshgiKhan]

Nice work

[@artistkuashabindu5568]

Great

[@horaciogarciarosas4895]

Excelente Artista

[@ivanklymenko]

🤩

[@jacquelinesaffold6179]

I couldn't get a good look at your work. The camera moved too quickly.

[@void.lawyer]

Google her

[@Rope-a-dope-v7y]

I set the playback speed at 0.25x for a good look…she is producing some great work!❤️

[@kathleenclarke828]

what place? Couldn't quite catch the name of the place.

[@despardgallery]

Zoe Grey grew up in Marrawah, a remote coastal town on the northwest tip of Tasmania. Her practice speaks to this place through paintings that act a process of recall.

[@raoufshobhi6766]

انا خدام عند الفنانه عظيمة يافنانة

[@rayemartineau8644]

❤☝🌹🌈👀 5/31/22

[@rutbrea8796]

I am sorry to say that your work doesn't touch me in any sense. I like to see history, faces of real human beings at certain point in their lives which will never repeat in their lives or the person looking for meaning.

[@jimreid9674]

The paintings are colourful but convey little emotion. The artist's comments are empty of serious communication. 'Self' 'Place' etc., very shallow.

[@ltwig476]

Honest real and raw is what she is after. If emotionless is what she feels about the place, that's the honesty she is after. Most artists answers in conversations are made up off the top of their heads. Paintings are personal events. You cannot truly remember nor communicate what happened during that particular event. It's not a thinking process. It is allowing space and time happen to self. No explanation would be true to what happened.