Namu & Sue Pegrume
1st - 30th March
Main gallery – SQUARE EDGE ARTS CENTRE
SUE PEGRUME:
When Jade (Namu) my 22 year old son and I decided to exhibit together for the second it seemed opportune to show a series of unexhibited coat drawings on paper I did when I was a 22 years old along with Jade’s current work, as a fun leaping off point together. These coats are suspended empty vessels, remnants of my past.
My new works on paper, (43 years later) , are about life, death and change. What was, what is, and what will be. Jade and I experienced the death of a close family friend a year ago. I was there with her until it was time for her to die. What struck me was how much life she had before she died. She and I talked about ends and tried to make sense of how a person lives on after death. This prompted me to tap into questions of where I am going as I get nearer to the death end of age. I find myself exploring how we intersect with nature on a molecular level when we die. And I am exploring the circle of death and re-creation. And most importantly the impact we are having on our environment, during our life and after our death.
Namu:
As a 22 year old, I feel my life is only beginning. I have endless possibilities, and life fee ls huge and amazing and in technicolor. This is represented in my paintings being as colourful and as vibrant as I can make them. However, last year a close family friend of mine passed away, which has made me think about the concept of death a lot more in my work. I have come to the point now where I am enjoying combining themes of life and death, still in technicolor but often with skull imagery. We are living and dying at the same time, as every day we live, we get closer to death. I paint to enjoy life, and embrace the end result of death, a life well lived and made the most of. To have an exhibition of my works with my mother seems perfect.
