Rozalie Sherwood Artworks: Cry for Peace

 

Rozalie Sherwood, Cry for Peace, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Artist: Rozalie Sherwood Artworks: Cry for Peace

My work is a response to Murphy’s satirical poem, World Peace. Her words speak of the unpredictability, insecurity, and fragility of life, in a confronting yet surprisingly entertaining manner. My choice of ink colours to depict blood, ash and smoke on linen shapes with holes, and my strong black machine stitching, interprets this unpredictability and fragility. This series of three portrays the passing of time, with war continuing, yet ongoing hope for peace.

Poet: Lizz Murphy
Title: World Peace
Murphy, L. (2000) ‘World Peace’ in Two Lips Went Shopping. (Spinifex Press, p. 79)

Poem:

We watch the progress of peace talks Hold our breath for news that will hold our people together Hold our breath for news in fear that the next killing will be our own We watch the progress of other wars Hold our breath for news of bigger threats Hold our breath in fear for the people of the world Watch the madding crowds fight for their futures fight for basic rights fight back for what they believe in An Australian airline promotes world peace A white dove frozen in flight on a magazine page of indigo night Peace as commodity Travellers whisked away relax safe in the knowledge that this airline will continue the quest Two hundred airport lounges and complimentary snacks.

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Tree Whispers Exhibition Opening

 

A Networks Australia members group exhibition. 

Pivot Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre

Opening 6pm Friday 14 October 2022

More information can be found on the Belconnen Arts Centre website

Image: Rozalie Sherwood, Bark Stories- image courtesy of the artist 

Passages and Portals - Networks Australia exhibition

Bev Moxon, Gathering Moss, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Bev Moxon, Gathering Moss, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Dotti Le Sage,  Frozen Garden with scapulae Photographer Fiona Bowring

Sharon Peoples, Maidenhair shovel and Maidenhair trowel  Photographer Fiona Bowring

Monique van Nieuwland, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Josie  Cosgrove, Deep Blue Eyes, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Rozalie Sherwood, Cry for Peace, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Gail Nichols, La Nina Deluge, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Angela Coleman, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Ann McMahon, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

 Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Passages and Portals 

September 9

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October 19 2022

Networks Australia is a group of practising visual artists, living and working in Australia. We work in all mediums including textiles, sculpture, photography, painting and drawing.

Our exhibition titled ‘Passages and Portals’ consists of artworks inspired by Australian poetry. Poems are often passages and portals, offering new ways of seeing our natural surroundings and life experiences. In this exhibition, each artist has interpreted an Australian poem visually.

The Networks artists have invited a group of local Grenfell poets to include their own poetry in the exhibition, addressing the themes of Passages and Portals. These poems will be displayed among the artworks in the gallery.

Grenfell Art Gallery

The Juice of a Carrot, The Smile on a Parrot

Sherwood, Rozalie - The blue ‘fleet’ are arriving on our east coast – and you probably haven’t seen some of them before 

The juice of a carrot, the smile on a parrot 

Rozalie Sherwood, Steve Tomlin and Maureen Bartle 

Rozalie Sherwood is a member of the Networks Australia group

M16 Artspace

Friday 30 September - Sunday 16 October 2022

Opening Thursday 29 September 6-8pm 

A Few Reasons: Rozalie Sherwood and Steve Tomlin

Rozalie Sherwood , The Tale of the Whale 1. Photographer Andrew Sikorski of Art Atelier Photography.

This exhibition celebrates small and simple pleasures, lighter moments, humour and the power of imagination. The artists’ inspiration comes from memory, landscape, news stories and the process of creating and painting. In doing so, they bring a respite from excess and emphasise a more considered relationship with nature and life.

Rozalie Sherwood is a member of the NetworksAustralia group.

2-19 June 2022

Brunswick Street Gallery

Brooching the Subject - Rozalie Sherwood

Rozalie Sherwood, Spring, 6.5cm x 6 cm Linen, ink, thread, beads, acrylic sheet, free machine embroidery
Photographer Fiona Bowring-Greer

Congratulations to group member Rozalie Sherwood on winning 2nd prize in Brooching the Subject exhibition.

Artists from all over Australia and the world are vying for prize-money and selling their creative wares in the sixth Brooching the Subject exhibition, to be held at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles, Australia’s only commercial textile gallery.

Brooching the Subject 

Timeless Textiles Gallery

Small Works Art Prize : Rozalie Sherwood

Rozalie Sherwood, Dancing with Demons 2019,  linen, ink, thread, banknote, paper (from article in French on democracy), acrylic sheet.

Rozalie Sherwood, Dancing with Demons 2019,  linen, ink, thread, banknote, paper (from article in French on democracy), acrylic sheet.

Rozalie Sherwood, Dancing with Demons 2019,  linen, ink, thread, banknote, paper (from article in French on democracy), acrylic sheet.

Rozalie Sherwood, Dancing with Demons 2019,  linen, ink, thread, banknote, paper (from article in French on democracy), acrylic sheet.

Winner of the Clifroy Prize: Rozalie Sherwood

Brunswick Street Gallery 

Artist Statement 

This work came from time spent in DRC (Congo) in 2019 - a country disrupted by war, poverty, corruption and tribalism.

Passing the street vendors who sold simcards and internet access, I saw the huge piles of cash most had sitting on tables in front of them. I found it disturbing to see all that cash and to know that most people can afford only one meal each day. (1 Congolese Franc equals 0.00089 AUD; around 3000 Francs will buy a beer or a litre of milk.)

https://www.instagram.com/rozalie.sherwood/ 

 

Featured Artist - Rozalie Sherwood

1. Rozalie Sherwood, Nyiragongo, 2019. Linen, ink, thread, acrylic sheet. 40 x 40 cm. Image by Andrew Sikorski.

My recent work was influenced by time spent in DRC (Congo) in 2019 - a country disrupted by war, poverty, corruption and tribalism. These works reflect my observations, experiences and conversations, mostly with women. Their lives are hard and dangerous. Making the work was helpful in processing the experience.

ANCA featured artist Rozalie Sherwood

Wangaratta Petite Miniature Textiles exhibition

12 June -16 August | Gallery 1

JUNE – AUGUST

Petite Miniature Textiles 2020 exhibition is the 6th iteration of this popular and much loved event. Occurring biennially, this exhibition showcases the best small textile artworks from around the nation. This exhibition continues to grow in popularity with artists from around the country participating by creating contemporary textiles no larger than 30x30x30cm.

Petite has become a highlight of the gallery’s program and focus for contemporary textile art practitioners. A diverse array of techniques and themes explore everything from colour, texture and decoration to social, political and environmental issues, propelling textiles into the realm of the visual arts.

To celebrate the 2020 Petite exhibition the Wangaratta Art Gallery is proud to release this beautifully designed online catalogue that is guaranteed to delight and intrigue all of those who choose to explore. It will act as an important archive recording this year’s event, recording this unique time in history due to the COVID restrictions, but most importantly allowing access to all who are not able to visit the exhibition in person.

 Petite Miniature Textiles exhibition Website 

Online Exhibition Catalogue

(click on image to open catalogue) 

Installation of Trees: As Above So Below No 4

Rozalie Sherwood,  Tree of Life 2017

Susan Hey, The Trees Gift 2017

Susan Pfanner, Nest 2017 Photo by Sue Aylen

Susan Pfanner, Nest 2017

Valerie Kirk, Round and Around 2017

Trees: As above, So Below

The artworks visible on and around the Eucalypt Lawn are part of an exhibition titled Trees: As above, So Below, created by members of Networks Australia, a group of primarily Canberra based visual artists who have exhibited extensively nationally and Internationally, addressing a variety of issues, social, political and environmental.


In this instance inspired by the work of the ANBG and a slew of recent books on the subject of trees, 1 the artists focus on the broader and often overlooked if not hidden aspects of trees to expand perceptions beyond the visible structure to root systems and canopies and various interdependences and interactions with other life forms vital in maintaining a healthy eco-system.

Bev Moxon

Deborah Faeyrglenn

Members discussing Trees: As above, So Below exhibition works

Nancy Tingey

Rozalie Sherwood