Opening Night: Friday 17 April, 6–8pm

Exhibition Dates: 17 April - 2 May

Wilks explores the notion of balance and battling with the experience of life. Through the use of printmaking and cyanotypes and it’s unexpected joy, to the highly purposefully, controlled act of drawing and stitching, Wilks explores ideas of spirituality, joy in the ordinary and mental health.

‘The Silver Line’ is Wilks’s first Solo Show and was created in the comfort and chaos of her own home in The Hunter Valley where she turned to the environment around her and the emotions inside of her for inspiration and produced this body of work for clarity.

Details of the ordinary can be seen throughout her work from snail trails to leaf silhouettes from her Mum’s salvia plant that blooms in Autumn, to bigger more grand things that all life require to live like the sun and moon. This exhibition is about feeling human and what is felt, thought and seen in your mind whilst walking that line between joy and despair. Walking along that silver line. Emma Wilks is a multidisciplinary artist who studied Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle. Wilks likes to blend mediums with her art, showcasing her first love of drawing with more recently found joys such a cyanotype, printmaking, painting and collage. Her use of stitching can be found as a constant throughout her art as limitations of a small press won’t stop her from creating bigger works and joining beautiful scraps together to create collages and depth in her works.

Wilks lives and works in The Hunter Valley but grew up in Lake Macquarie and Newcastle surrounds, often using her memories of place growing up to inspire her work.

Opening night supported by Sea Salt & Sage Catering, Young Henrys, Symphonia Wines, Heaps Normal, NON

Free entry | All welcome