
ESSAY: Bridie Gillman, 'Sight Lines' at Edwina Corlette, Brisbane
....the paintings invite a moment of pause. A moment to be in the landscape. Hear the wind and rain. Watch the shadows
dance in the foliage. Gillman invited this energy in the repetition of line, form, and colour—translated from the rural typology. Engaging not only the senses we resonate with on an immediate basis (like
smell, sight, touch, taste, hear), but also the ones we don’t—memory and emotion—for a tapping into the subconscious....